Jack London杰克伦敦全英文介绍.pptx

;;Life; ; ;Sailing was one of his favorite activities. When he was 13, he succeeded in crossing the San Francisco Bay in a storm. He became a sailor at 17 and traveled to Bering Sea to hunt seals. In 1896, the second gold rush also attracted Jack London to join in this activity. But due to the health, he returned home. 1900 was a turning point in London s literary career. In the following 16 years, he wrote about 50 novels, including a series of North tales, sea adventure, essays.;Literature Career; London sold his early stories to the Oveland Monthly in the West （《西方的奥松月刊》）and the Atlantic Monthly in the East（《东方的大西洋月刊》） in 1899, and published his first collection of stories The Son of the Wolf（《狼的儿子》） in 1900. From then on，he made his living by writing, though his manuscripts were often rejected by editors, and he was sometimes without money. Yet he forced himself to write a thousand words a day, and completed more than forty -nine volumes altogether in his life.;; Loyal to his master, Buck performs several heroic exploits for him, most notable saving him from drowning and winning a wager by drawing a 1, 000-1b sledge. Later, he fends off an Indian attack during which Thornton is nevertheless killed. Masterless, but now at home in the Alaskan wilds，Buck abandons human civilization to become the leader of a wolf pack.; The novel shows the authors view that success means an adaptation to circumstances —— a coordination of inner energy and external force. This book made him immediately popular, and his name was soon known all over the country. It also established his status as a highly paid author. For the next twelve years he wrote passionately, and lived a wild life. He drank and caroused. He never settled down. He was a newspaper reporter in Asia at the time of the Ruso-Japanese War日俄战争, and served in the same capacity in the Mexican Civil War墨西哥内战 in 1914. He liked excitement of it. Wherever there was actional London was present.;After 1913, The