Smoke Bellew - Jack London

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Résumé :
?Smoke Bellew? is a 1912 novel by Jack London. The story revolves around Christopher Bellew, a successful journalist in San Francisco who one day decides to swapping his monotonous and meaningless life for an entirely different one in nature. From clean-shaven pen-pusher to bearded mountain man, he adopts the name Smoke and learns to live in the wilds of the frontier. John Griffith London (1876 ? 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their writing. Other notable works by this author include: ?The Cruise of the Dazzler? (1902), ?The Kempton-Wace Letters? (1903), and ?The Call of the Wild? (1903). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Biographie:
John Griffith Jack London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White 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.

London was part of the radical literary group, The Crowd, in San Francisco, and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction expos? The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.