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So, now I'll have read on Jack London.
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London as a man wouldn't have been very popular on this site. He was a radical socialist, pro union, pro white supremacy. He was an advocate of eugenics, the practice of selectively breeding humans toward a master race. Just enjoy his books and don't dig into his real life. Dont judge him too harshly by today's standards. America at the turn of the last century was a vastly different place from today, and many of the social and political ideas and movements mentioned above were in their infancy. Socialists at the time were trying to break free of the depressed squalor that the industrial revolution had created for unskilled urban workers. There was no social security, no welfare, no income tax, no antitrust law, no child welfare law, etc. Eugenics and other quasi-sciences such as phrenology were promoted and believed by many because there was no rigorous scientific process in place to show their invalidity. Come to think of it, now we have all those things and people still believe in many of them, including unproven quasi-science, read Anthropological Global Warming. Arrgh! That said, Martin Eden is to Jack London as The Fires of Spring is to James Michener--a coming-out novel completely different than the rest of the author's body of work. I read it first in my salad days and thought it was very powerful. It does show some of the roots of his socialism and his depression as well. Glad its not the only thing he wrote.
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"A piece of steak",is my favorite short story of his.I 've enjoyed his works for many years now.none of the ,,call of the wild,, movies have ever captured the spirt of the book,especially the ending.
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London as a man wouldn't have been very popular on this site. He was a radical socialist, pro union, pro white supremacy. He was an advocate of eugenics, the practice of selectively breeding humans toward a master race. Just enjoy his books and don't dig into his real life. Dont judge him too harshly by today's standards. America at the turn of the last century was a vastly different place from today, and many of the social and political ideas and movements mentioned above were in their infancy. Socialists at the time were trying to break free of the depressed squalor that the industrial revolution had created for unskilled urban workers. There was no social security, no welfare, no income tax, no antitrust law, no child welfare law, etc. Eugenics and other quasi-sciences such as phrenology were promoted and believed by many because there was no rigorous scientific process in place to show their invalidity. Come to think of it, now we have all those things and people still believe in many of them, including unproven quasi-science, read Anthropological Global Warming. Arrgh! That said, Martin Eden is to Jack London as The Fires of Spring is to James Michener--a coming-out novel completely different than the rest of the author's body of work. I read it first in my salad days and thought it was very powerful. It does show some of the roots of his socialism and his depression as well. Glad its not the only thing he wrote. Between the railroads, meat packers, and steel factories, it was hell on labor in those days. The unions were needed to get some kind of relief for the workers. The problem was that once the problems were solved, the unions never went away. They just kept asking for more and more. For more info, read some of Upton Sinclair or maybe 'The Octopus' by Norris. They got real deep into the need for labor reform.
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Lost Face is my favorite work of his and I think I have read them all. Its availible free at the project gutenburg website. He wrote some good short stories. https://www.gutenberg.org/
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London as a man wouldn't have been very popular on this site. He was a radical socialist, pro union, pro white supremacy. He was an advocate of eugenics, the practice of selectively breeding humans toward a master race. Just enjoy his books and don't dig into his real life. Dont judge him too harshly by today's standards. America at the turn of the last century was a vastly different place from today, and many of the social and political ideas and movements mentioned above were in their infancy. Socialists at the time were trying to break free of the depressed squalor that the industrial revolution had created for unskilled urban workers. There was no social security, no welfare, no income tax, no antitrust law, no child welfare law, etc. Eugenics and other quasi-sciences such as phrenology were promoted and believed by many because there was no rigorous scientific process in place to show their invalidity. Come to think of it, now we have all those things and people still believe in many of them, including unproven quasi-science, read Anthropological Global Warming. Arrgh! That said, Martin Eden is to Jack London as The Fires of Spring is to James Michener--a coming-out novel completely different than the rest of the author's body of work. I read it first in my salad days and thought it was very powerful. It does show some of the roots of his socialism and his depression as well. Glad its not the only thing he wrote. Well said!!! THANK YOU!!
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Read several of his books and short stories in my youth. Took my first trip to the Yukon in 2013 to hunt Dall sheep and read Call of the Wild and a White Fang on the trip. Nothing like reading London's Yukon stories while camped at an old gold strike site in the Yukon wilderness. Have a picture of the bronze bust of him on the Main Street in Whitehorse a couple blocks from the Yukon River. Read Sea Wolf when I got home.
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