杰克·伦敦短篇小说集(英文版)
内容简介
LONDON's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, and they are painstakingly well-constructed. Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes:"London's true metier was the short story…. London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed."
Although his writings suggest a complexity of ideas, he is commonly categorized as a literary naturalist. His adventure stories of Alaska and the Pacific continue to fascinate new generations of readers.
作者简介
JACK LONDON(1876—1916), American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
London is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and V7hite 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 of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.