Jack London

Lost Face (Annotated) Jack London

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Lost Face is a collection of seven Jack London tales. It takes its name from the first story in the book, about a European adventurer in the Yukon who overcomes his Indian (American) captors' plans to torture him. The book includes London's best-known short story, "To Build a Fire". Jack London, (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) John Griffith London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of magazine trade fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a world celebrity and earn a fortune by writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories like "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, socialism and eugenics. He wrote several works related to these themes, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exhibition The People of the Abyss, The War of the Classes and Before Adam.