Jack London杰克伦敦及其作品介绍.pptVIP

Jack London Life experience Born : January 12, 1876 San Francisco, California, US Died : November 22, 1916 Aged 40 Old name John Griffith Chaney Oyster pirate (13) Had a mistress aged 16 (15) Sailor (17) Worker Tramp Admitted to the University of California, Berkeley (20, forced to leave due to financial circumstances the next year) Klondike Gold Rush (21) the setting for some of his first successful stories A social conscience and socialist leanings; he returned to become an activist for socialism He concluded that his only hope of escaping the work trap was to get an education and sell his brains. He saw his writing as a business, his ticket out of poverty, and, he hoped, a means of beating the wealthy at their own game. Literary position American author, journalist, and social activist One of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction Influence on later writers, such as, Hemingway, George Orwell Views Atheism “I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated(彻底毁灭的) as the last mosquito you and I squashed.” Socialism wrote from a socialist viewpoint (The Iron Heel? 1984) Londons socialism grew out of his life experience (How I Became a Socialist) Joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1896 Joined the Socialist Party of America in 1901 The War of the Classes (1905) Revolution, and other Essays (1906) Works Short story collections (21) Novels (23) Autobiographical memoirs (2) Non-fiction and essays (23) Plays (3) Poetry (45) Short stories Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes: “Londons true métier was the short story ... Londons true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed.” To Build a Fire (1902), best known Love of life Sc