Jack London, born as John Griffith ‘Jack’ London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist who became a renowned figure of his time. Jack London as he is popularly called, dominated the world of commercial magazine fiction, which was a budding genre then with his numerous fictional tales, so much so that he became one of the first fiction writers to gain a celebrity status worldwide. He was also one of the primary writers to obtain a large fortune from fiction writing alone. He was a part of the radical literary group, ‘The Crowd’. In his lifetime, jack London came up with several notable works including, ‘The Call of the Wind’, ‘White Fang’, ‘To Build a Fire’, ‘An Odyssey of the North’, ‘Love of Life’, ‘Pearls of Parley’ and so on. He was a passionate advocator of unionization, socialism and rights of workers. Many a times, he campaigned for the cause through his books that dealt with these topics. These ideally formed a smaller but significant chunk of his non-fiction work including, ‘The Iron Heel’, ‘The People of the Abyss’ and ‘The War of the Classes’. Other than work, Jack London is also famous for his quotes that say a lot about life and living in fewer words. Find in this piece some of the best known quotes by Jack London.
White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
Jack London
He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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