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Works of Jack London: Introduction

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:London, Jack

London, Jack
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Introduction

Biographic Comment:

Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876. The product of a broken
home and a poverty-stricken family, he left school at the age of fourteen to
go to work. In those times this was not an unusual occurrence for an average
boy, because then school was not considered the necessity that we think it to
be nowadays. However, the things that Jack London did were unusual. While
still in his teens he shipped as an able seaman to Japan and the Siberian
coast and also worked with a group of oyster pirates. He took odd jobs in
mills ...

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