White Fang (Esprios Classics)

Jack London (1876-1916) , was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909) . Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902) , The Call of the Wild (1903) , The Sea Wolf (1904) , The Game (1905) , White Fang (1906) , The Road (1907) , Before Adam (1907) , Adventure (1911) , and The Scarlet Plague (1912) .