Jack London
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Joe Peyronnin: A Rogue Review...football scores until he had seen the tape-delayed game. Palin says she developed a love for books because of her mother, reading Jack London's The Call of The Wild and The Wizard of Oz. When Todd Palin and his family moved to town during... In this article: Sarah Palin, Katie Couric, John McCain, Alaska, Nicolle Wallace, and Tax |
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Salon | 2 days ago
Democrat goes rogue, declares Palin's book great !
...games is known as "riding the pine." Alaskan history itself seems to be rich, so very rich in ... the letter K. "The year before Jack London arrived, Skookum Jim Mason and Dawson Charlie met up in the Yukon Territory east of the Alaska...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Alaska, Moose, Turkey, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Potato, Hummus, and Ptarmigan
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PopMatters | 3 days ago
Strange Muse: Jack London and Ernest Gallo (Column)
Strange Muse: Jack London and Ernest Gallo Page 1 of 2 Go to: 1 2 > Next page: The Sweating Man One bad novel, gallons of cheap red wine, and spring-fed creeks of sweat. "Rodger! It's Mac again. I don't know why you won't return my...
In this article: Hobart Bosworth, San Francisco, and Hustler
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Guardian Unlimited | 7 days ago
British Columbia: call of the wild
British Columbia: my very own call of the wild Make your Jack London fantasies come true on the ultimate fishing trip in British Columbia, 100 miles from the nearest road I barely remember my grandfather - only that he would clap his...
In this article: British Columbia and Moose
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Boing Boing | November 12, 2009
Make an audiobook, get an audiobook science fiction challenge
...classic and obscure titles that would otherwise be unavailable in audio. This year's challenges has a variety of authors including Jack London, Mack Reynolds, James E. Gunn and many others." [PHOTO: "Jessie," a CC-licensed image by LeTiger.]
In this article: Mack Reynolds, James E. Gunn, Beverly Hills Cop, and CNN
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Contactmusic.com | November 12, 2009
Nbc - Vivendi Mum On Nbc Universal Sale
...cash." Meanwhile, Vivendi is showing no reluctance to compete against NBC Universal. It announced Wednesday that it plans to release Jack London's Call of the Wild as a 3D DVD on Dec. 22 -- complete with two pairs of 3D glasses included...
In this article: Vivendi, NBC Universal, General Electric, Universal, NBC, All rights reserved, Joint venture, DVD, and Call of the Wild
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LA Progressive | November 10, 2009
Death Panels in Perspective
...government death panels, please ask the speaker to stop the fear mongering or please be seated and let someone else have a word. Jack London, the writer that drew me to Alaska and who died young, said he would rather be "ashes than dust.
In this article: Charles D. Hayes, Anxiety, Alaska, Dementia, Stupor, and The Denial of Death
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Times Online | October 28, 2009
Oxford English
...at Euston in 1848, that the Left Book Club in its twelve-year history printed only one play, or that P. G. Wodehouse and Jack London were among the authors published by Mills and Boon in that company's early days. Nor did I know that...
In this article: Hermione Lee, Oxford English, Robert Louis Stevenson, Suicide, Richard Carew, and Carroll John Daly
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San Francisco Chronicle | October 21, 2009
Joaquin Miller's Abbey to be restored
...the Wintu Indians, obsessively planted trees in the Oakland hills and spun lies for his pals Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Bret Harte, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson and Walt Whitman. Now, Miller's gingerbread cottage, site of many a...
In this article: Joaquin Miller, Ambrose Bierce, Oakland, Dog, and God
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Tucson Citizen | October 18, 2009
Paperback Novels: Sex, Unexpected Twists, Shocks, and a Romantic Bestseller from 1979
...and director in Hollywood, needs a hit and there's only one man who help him reclaim his past glories: Jack London. Set in 1916, the last year of London's life, Bosworth travels to Hawaii to find the legendary writer. The common thread that...
In this article: Elizabeth I, Walter Raleigh, Simon & Schuster, and Emma Harte
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thestar.com | October 06, 2009
Exclusive: Into the Wild rescue for Toronto hiker
...map reading, and he had traveled solo before. Once out in the bush, Faber soon realized how tough the conditions were. This was Jack London's Alaska, beautiful, severe and unforgiving. It rained virtually every day for the seven days he was...
In this article: Into the Wild, Toronto, Poaching, Concussion, Anxiety, Mountain Equipment Co-op, and National Park Service
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Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. 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.
- Birth Date:
- January 12, 1876
- Birthplace:
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Death Date:
- November 22, 1916
- Place of Death:
- United States
- Occupation:
- Novelist, journalist, short story writer, essayist and socialist
- Period:
- Realism and Naturalism
- Influenced By:
- Ouida, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Friedrich Nietzsche, David Starr Jordan, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Tyndall, Ernest Haeckel, Karl Marx
- Influenced:
- Richard Wright, Jack Kerouac, Robert E. Howard, George Orwell, Scott Sigler, Anton LaVey, Christopher McCandless
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