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PRACTICE
SCHOOL : BETHANIA
YEAR : 2019
BIOGRAPHY
JACK LONDON (1876-1916)
Jack London (John Griffith London) was born in San Francisco, California (United
States), on January 12, 1876. He was an illegitimate son of an astrologer named
William Henry Chaney, and Flora Wellman, a good family music teacher derived
from Ohio that is also dedicated to the world of the occult, specifically to
spiritualism. His father abandoned his offspring and his lover. Sick his mother, little
Jack grew up in the care of a slave named Virginia Prentiss. Flora married John
London in September 1876. Ten years after the family he moved to Oakland.
In 1893, Jack (who adopted his adoptive father's last name) saw his first texts
published in the newspaper "San Francisco Call".
In a romantic spirit, Jack London soon experienced his traveling and bohemian life,
becoming a sailor, marching to Alaska to try to find gold, wandering the streets of
London and working as a war correspondent.
He married twice, the first in 1900 with Bess Madern and the second in 1905 with
Charmian Kittredge. Other important women in his life were Mabel Applegrath and
Anna Strunsky. He had two daughters with Bess, the first, named Joan, was born
in 1901. The second, Becky, first came to light in 1902.
His literary work, narrated lightly and with a direct style, is an extension of his own
adventurous existence and vital thoughts.
The most important titles in his bibliography are “Los De Abajo” (1903), “La
Llamada De La Selva” (1903), “El Lobo De Mar” (1904), “White Fang” (1907), “Luz
del Día "," Martín Eden "(1909) and" John Barleycorn "(1913).
His social and ideological positions inspired him titles such as "The People of the
Abyss" (1903), "Class War" (1905) or "The Grass Heel" (1908).
We also write short stories like "The White Silence" or "Unga". One of his story
books is "El Idólatra", a volume with stories set in the South Seas.
(1876-1916)
Jack London (John Griffith London) nació en San Francisco, California (Estados
Unidos), el 12 de enero de 1876. Era hijo ilegítimo de un astrólogo llamado
William Henry Chaney, y de Flora Wellman, una profesora de música de buena
familia derivada de Ohio que se dedica también al mundo de lo oculto,
concretamente al espiritismo. Su padre abandonó a su retoño y a su amante.
Enferma su madre, el pequeño Jack creció al cuidado de una esclava de nombre
Virginia Prentiss. Flora se casó con John London en septiembre de 1876. Diez
años después de la familia se trasladó a Oakland.
En el año 1893, Jack (que adoptó el apellido de su padre adoptivo) vio sus
primeros textos publicados en el diario "San Francisco Call".
Su educación fue autodidacta, leyendo con voracidad todo tipo de obras, desde
Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustave Flaubert o Washington Irving hasta Charles
Darwin, Rudyard Kipling o Karl Marx.
Su obra literaria, narrada con ligereza y con un estilo directo, es una extensión de
su propia existencia aventurera y de sus pensamientos vitales.
Los títulos más importantes de su bibliografía son “Los De Abajo” (1903), “La
Llamada De La Selva” (1903), “El Lobo De Mar” (1904), “Colmillo Blanco”
(1907), “Luz Del Día "," Martín Eden "(1909) y" John Barleycorn "(1913).
Sus posturas sociales e ideológicas le inspiraron títulos como “El pueblo del
abismo” (1903), “Guerra de clases” (1905) o “El talón de hierba” (1908).
También escribimos relatos cortos como "El Silencio Blanco" o "Unga". Uno de
sus libros de relatos es “El Idólatra”, volumen con cuentos ambientados en los
Mares del Sur.