The article is devoted to the study of the work of American writer Jack London and his use of such a literary concept as «love motives». In the works of Jack London, one can often observe a reference to the ancient heroic epic and mythology. It can be said that the Klondike is a kind of prototype of the modern heroic epic and mythopoetics of Jack London, which is opposed to modern Western civilization, creating points of contact and mutual transition between the two worlds. A characteristic feature of the artistic world of Jack London is a branched motivating organization. The article examines the dynamics of love motives in Jack London’s adventure novel «Hearts of Three». The author describes the literary techniques that the author uses to embody love motives. The motives of love in the novel can be found in the monologues of the characters, their actions, words and the construction of the plot, the center of which is a love story. The main means of conveying the feelings of lovers in Jack London’s novel is the dialogue between the characters, because the writer, as a representative of realism, presents people as simple earthly creatures, truthfully depicts reality and doesn’t share romantic feelings and everyday problems, but describes them as they are, without decorations and exaggeration. Honor, dignity and friendship are the main features of the characters, they are guided through life.

Jack London began writing poetry in May 1897. From then on, the lyrical process, in the form of odd, single lines, stanzas and complete poems, would be present throughout his career as a novelist, essayist and short-story writer. His most ambitiously prolific period was between 1897 and 1899, and by the age of twenty-three he had already composed and published most of his poems. London’s incursion into poetry was not fortuitous, but instead was a deliberate, personal decision to enter what he hoped would be a lucrative profession. This began in May 1897, with the poem “Effusion”, which launched what was to be a short but vibrant poetic career. London’s poetry is replete with a wide variety of issues and captures the most intimate and existential expression of a young man who aspired to make poetry the literary and vocational tool with which to become a crucial figure in the promising socialist movement of the fin de siècle.

Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coastby turns playing the role of hobo, sailor, prospector, and oyster pirate. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed, best-selling books: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf. London was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest-paid writer in America, he was nevertheless constantly broke. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice, he burned himself out at forty: sick, angry, and disillusioned, but leaving behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Wolf, award-winning author James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack Londonat once a hard-living globetrotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Wolf resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.

As one of the outstanding representative works of the famous American realist writer Jack London, the story tells the growth process of a little gray wolf named “White Fang”. This novel describes how a young wolf enters the civilized world of human beings from the wilderness, and tells the legendary experience of the main character, White Fang, who eventually turns from a wolf to a dog through trials and tribulations. This novel tells people that human society is different from the animal world, and they need not only to adapt to the environment but also to accept the ethical and moral constraints in order to obtain a broader space for growth if they want to survive in society. By reviewing the main content of White Fang and the author’s biography, this paper analyzes the background of the creation of White Fang and highlights the growth of White Fang and the meaning of life by analyzing the description of the survival experience of White Fang in the work to show the tenacity of its vitality, with a view to reflecting on its inspiration and reflection on real life through the theme of the law of life and the principles of life in the novel. Furthermore, it aims at giving a positive interpretation of the meaning of life.

The research is devoted to the analysis of ethical and economic aspects of the relationship between Jack London and his major publisher, Macmillan President George P. Brett. Until recently, these relations, which are the brightest example of the synthesis of friendship and mutual benefit, were not the subject of a separate study. The influence of publishers, editors and the literary market as a whole on the writer’s creativity was also underestimated. The purpose of this study is to confirm the significant role of Brett in London’s writing career, who became not only a business partner for the writer, but also a friend and mentor. The relationship between the writer and the publisher is traced in a historical perspective, showing their changes as the writer’s career develops from a literary aspirant to a popular author, conflicts and contradictions, including those that resulted in London’s brief apostasy from Macmillan and a contract with Century. It is shown that many of London’s works, radical or different from the demands of the mass reader, such as The People of the Abyss, The Kempton - Wace Letters, The Iron Heel, The Road, Martin Eden, saw the light solely due to Brett’s liberalism. The firm intention of the writer to publish a significant number of works unclaimed in the literary market debunks the myth of Jack London as a commercial writer. On the other hand, it was precisely the generous and steady advances from Macmillan that gave London freedom for literary experiments, without which he would never have been able to go beyond the short story genre, as well as the “discourse of bargaining” was an integral part of this amazing friendship between writer and publisher.

The writings of Jack London offer a nuanced reading and opportunities for dynamic interpretation. He is one of the most prolific and debated writers of the twentieth century American literature. The “rags to riches” writer, whose early life was one of struggle and loss; he was very much influenced by the disparity in the social structure. Though he himself declared in an interview that he writes for money and caters to the demand of the market, in another place he was very displeased at the caging and categorizing that was often done by critics. He emphasized that an approach to his writings should be attempted towards bringing out the “motif under the motif” and not just labelling him. One such categorizing is his adherence to socialism. The purpose of this paper is to go beyond the theoretical premise of socialism and tend to unearth the contestations to the socialist ideals through his non fictional writing “The Dignity of Dollars”. An effort has been made to use the premise of Michel Foucault to understand the power relations in society and how Jack London even years before conformed to it.

In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's Story of a Typhoon to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.

As a notable work of American nautical fiction, The Sea-Wolf is a defining work of the novelist Jack London in his early career, paving the way for his future adventurous novels, including The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, and White Fang. This comparative study aims to inquire on Schopenhauerian philosophys affinities with Londons The Sea-Wolf by examining the antagonist, Wolf Larsens materialistic philosophy, and investigating Larsen as a Schopenhauerian genius and his controversial characterization as a Nietzschean bermensch.

Reviewed by: Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush by Peter Lourie Elizabeth Bush Lourie, Peter Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush; illus. by Wendell Minor and with photographs. Ottaviano/Holt, 2017 [192p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-8050-9757-3 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-8050-9758-0 $9.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8 Kids who find Call of the Wild or White Fang on a required reading list eventually learn that author Jack London had experienced the Yukon first hand. Lourie’s account finds London well before his writing days, focusing solely on London’s 1897 trek into the Klondike gold fields—a bit too late for the initial big strikes that set off the Stampede, and a bit too early for the human onslaught that would swell the population of Dawson and leave thousands of fortune seekers destitute. Lourie’s command of the Stampeders’ trials is first rate, and London’s personal experiences are in many ways typical of the 1897 adventurers who invested all they had, fought their way over the Chilkoot Pass, braved the rapids on their way to Dawson in leaky handmade boats, and arrived (if they were very lucky) in time to stake and register claims that would change their lives. Indeed, like so many of his fellow adventurers, London’s life did change—just not in the way he had envisioned. Forced by scurvy to leave after one season, London returned with plots, observations, and character studies that would make him, “at the age of twenty-seven … the most famous and highly paid writer in the world.” Though Lourie takes a liberty or two in his text and Minor’s gauzy black and white scenes are expendable, this will [End Page 323] nonetheless scratch the itch for readers who love a great true adventure tale, and if it scores them bonus points with the English teacher, so much the better. An index, timeline, and glossary are included. Copyright © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Jack London: Landscape, Love, and Place explores how Jack London‘s life and works are critical pieces of American history and literature, which can open an avenue between literary works and place-based learning. The thesis first lays a foundation for its theoretical interpretation of London‘s later works based on the idea of agrarian masculinity, a term that has developed since Thomas Jefferson through the Turner Thesis age and well into today as a lens for understanding Americanism and American ideals based on hard work, community, farm life, and harmony with nature. The thesis then studies two of London‘s works and his biography through this framework. It follows the analyses with ways to apply these critical ideas to place-based education principles and practices including suggestions for how other literary works and authors could be viable literary options for causing significant changes in the inclusion of more classic and popular literature place-based learning curricula.