This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. - Format: Paperback
- Author: Jack London
- ISBN10: 1406552097
- ISBN13: 9781406552096
Jack London 1876-1916 , was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden 1909 . Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost 1902 , The Call of the Wild 1903 , The Sea Wolf 1904 , The Game 1905 , White Fang 1906 , The Road 1907 , Before Adam 1907 , Adventure 1911 , and The Scarlet Plague 1912 .
