I have been getting into some of Jack London's lesser known work lately and am wondering about other people thoughts on this work. So far I have read "Martin Eden" and also "Sea Wolf". I'm in the middle of "Valley of the Moon" right now. I read "White Fand" And "Call of the wild" when I was younger, but I think this other stuff of his is of a much better caliber.
i read white fang and call of the wild when i was really young, and sea wolf when i was in sixth grade i think. i absolutely loved sea wolf. i should probably read them again, as i would understand them a bit better.
i was hoping there would be a jack london thread and it was on the first page a call of the wild is a pastime read for me, i never get tired of ol' buck sea wolf is probably my favorite by him ATM.
You should check out one of his lesser-known works, The Iron Heel. Written in 1905, it's a chilling prophecy of the rise of fascism and was an important influence on Orwell's 1984.
I have been trying to find the Iron Heel to no avail since a friend told me about it. Is it available in a collection of short stories or something?
No, the Iron Heel is published as a self-contained novel. My copy came from an obscure, probably long-defunct left-wing press in north London, but there are various editions listed on Amazon including a Penguin Classic. Good luck.
.i read "white fang","callof the wild"some short stories,they are very good.......also his last novel .which he didn't finish...it was eventually finished by another autho."the assassination bureau ltd."telly savalas and other well known actors were in it.jeeze i'm loseing my memory.dianna riggs too.......i saw a silent movie with lon chaney that had a very similar plot but guess what i can't remember the name....oliver reed was another actor in the telly savalas movie.
In his youth Jack London was a socialist. As he became successful he continued to think of himself as a socialist, but he began to feel like a social Darwinist. Call of the Wild, and White Fang are celebrations of the success that comes to those who are naturally superior. By the time London wrote these novels, that is the way he was feeling about himself. In public London would have disagreed with Ayn Rand. In private, he would have enjoyed her novels.
Iron heel is online at these two sites you can also find other london books and audio books online http://www.jacklondons.net/writings/IronHeel/toc.html http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1164 Im a fan of jack london great writer , I read a lot of his stuff because I grew up with my grandfathers books and he liked that sort of robust writing
I read John Barleycorn in my early 20s, and thought about it often in the years after, especially its moral that you have to be more drunk in brain than body, and if you lose that ability or forget its truth, you don't deserve to be drinking. So, if you have it, hang on to it, or its time to deny The White Logic. Anyway, its a great and powerful story, no matter what you do for kicks/work/living.
