Revolution and Other Essays By Jack London 1910
Although best known for his adult fiction, Jack London wrote in almost every corner available from verse to first person investigations of the plight of the poor to biographies to essays. A self proclaimed socialist, London was very consistent in his viewpoints unlike many of his fellow writers. This is one of his least well received collections of writing and perhaps one of his best.
• REVOLUTION
• THE SOMNAMBULISTS
• THE DIGNITY OF DOLLARS
• GOLIAH
• THE GOLDEN POPPY
• THE SHRINKAGE OF THE PLANET
• THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL
• THE GOLD HUNTERS OF THE NORTH
• FOMA GORDYEEFF
• THESE BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN
• THE OTHER ANIMALS
• THE YELLOW PERIL
• WHAT LIFE MEANS TO ME
Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).
