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Works of Jack London: Critical Commentary

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

London, Jack
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary

Early Criticism:

Ninetta Eames Payne, the first person ever to write about Jack London,
said of him: "If this youthful California writer makes a study of literary
style, it is not apparent, so simply and unaffectedly does he relate a story.
This young man of twenty-four has something more vital to offer than
finish . . . he reaches the humanity of his readers by direct course." These
words, printed in the Overland Monthly for May, 1900, probably sum up the
style of Jack London as well as any others which have ever been written about
him. ...

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