The Human Drift

Jack London

Summary

Jack London is a very successful American journalist, novelist and short story writer of the turn of the twentieth century. He is supposed to be the first American writer whose works have ascended to the status of world classics. These works mainly include the celebrated 'The Call of the Wild' and 'White Fang' and, here. 'The Human Drift'. Being first published in magazine, a practice that London is among those who have introduced to America, many of his stories have anthropomorphic dogs as protagonists. By and large, London had made an extraordinary contribution to the world of literature, a distinguished contribution that was to influence more than one fictional movement of the twentieth century such as adventure fiction, mystery fiction and science fiction.

Available since: 10/11/2013.

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