– The most popular novel by Jack London, considered autobiographical.
– A motivating story that has won the hearts of millions of readers around the world!
– The novel has been adapted for the screen six times; the latest adaptation came out in 2019.
– From the author of the novels 'White Fang', 'The Call of the Wild' and 'The Little Lady of the Big House'.
Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney), an outstanding American writer best known as the author of adventure stories, novellas, and novels, was born on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco.
The writer’s mother, Flora Wellman, was a complex, contradictory personality with a difficult fate. Her family was well-off, and the girl received a good education: first she studied at home, and then graduated from a women’s college (a teachers’ seminary). She drew quite well and played the piano skillfully and with pleasure.
Unfortunately, at the age of 14 (according to other sources, sixteen), she contracte…
