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Jack London   /dʒæk lˈəndən/   Listen
Jack London

noun
1.
United States writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916).  Synonyms: John Griffith Chaney, London.






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"Jack london" Quotes from Famous Books



... few immigrants who have acquired the habit of reading fiction prefer to read stories and poems of a more realistic character, like those of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, Ernest Poole, Mark Twain, Arnold Bennett, Longfellow. The traveling libraries need not be voluminous so much as of good quality. Aside from being practically useful, they should try to help the rural immigrant settlers to improve their standards ...
— A Stake in the Land • Peter Alexander Speek

... men, both heavy drinkers but differing in everything else. One was a philosopher who saw the world in that dreadful, clear white light of which Jack London[1] spoke, that light which leaves no cozy, pleasant obscurities, in which Truth, the naked, is horrible to look at, when life seems too unreal, when purposes seem most futile. At such times he would get drunk and be happy for the time being, and afterwards find himself bitterly repentant, ...
— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson



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