Showing posts with label Jack London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack London. Show all posts

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Great people: Jack London.

John Griffith Chaney was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco, California, the USA.

His movements in literature were: realism and naturalism.

Jack London wrote several novels; White Fang is one of them.

He married and had children.

Jack London died on November 22, 1916, in Glen Ellen, California, the USA.





Saturday, October 1, 2022

Literature. Part ninety one.

                                                  The Road by Jack London.

This book was published in 1907.

The autobiography described life in the United States in the nineties of the XIX century.

The characters are in different situations. They ride freight trains.

Also, characters visited many parts of the country. They encountered difficult moments, but the characters solved them. They had adventures, too.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/continuous-one-line-drawing-open-book-1489544150



Thursday, September 1, 2022

Famous people and their quotes. Part seventy five.

                                                             Jack London.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/jack-london-vector-sketch-illustration-portrait-1215810589


“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”

Source of information:

https://www.biography.com/writer/jack-london and

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1240.Jack_London

Sunday, November 3, 2019

Literature. Part fifty six.

                                                    White Fang by Jack London.

This novel was written at the beginning of XX century. Animals and people are main characters in this book. White Fang is the wolf-dog hybrid. His father and siblings died. But he survived.

White Fang had a lot of adventures during this story. The animal had masters Grey Beaver and Beauty Smith.

Also, White Fang had conflicts with other characters. But he found a female dog named Collie. They had puppies.

Main characters experienced many difficult moments. The animal was involved in dog fighting. Some people were cruel to him. Other saved the White Fang.

In the novel there are many descriptions of nature and landscapes.