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John Griffith London (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from 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 such as "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, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

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Når naturen kalder

Hunden Buck, en blanding af en St. Bernhard og en collie, lever et rart hundeliv hos en dommer i Santa Clara Valley i Californien, indtil han en dag bliver bortført og fragtet til Alaska, hvor han bliver solgt til slædehund.

Buck er imidlertid smartere end de fleste; han vænner sig hurtigt til sin nye tilværelse og bliver førerhund ved en af det canadiske postvæsens slæder. Naturens kalden i hans sind bliver dog stadig stærkere. Jack London (1876–1916) var en amerikansk forfatter. Han blev rig og verdensberømt på sine historier fra Yukon, især romanerne The Call of the Wild (1903, da. Når naturen kalder, 1907) og White Fang (1906, da. Ulvehunden, 1914). Ved siden af Rudyard Kipling og H.G. Wells har blandt angelsaksiske forfattere kun Ernest Hemingway, hvis livsverden har betydelige fællestræk med Jack Londons, opnået en lignende berømmelse.
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Udgivelsesdato22 jun. 2020
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ISBN epub9788711506349