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Questions about the works of Jack London (1876 – 1916) or his life as a writer.

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Meaning of "drew the lower jaw in" from "To Build A Fire"

In the story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, there is a line which I find too complex to interpret. After some manipulation he managed to get the bunch between the heels of his mittened ...
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Meaning of the phrase "If ever a man leaped across time into the raw..."

I'm reading Hearts of Three written by Jack London. Right in Chapter I, I found the following sentence: If ever a man leaped across time into the raw, red drama and tragedy of the primitive and the ...
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Use of "antithesis" by Jack London

In White Fang, Jack London writes: "But he was anything save a beauty. To antithesis was due his naming. He was preëminently unbeautiful." How is "antithesis" used in the example ...
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The oldest tradition stopped before it got back to him

The following passage is taken from The Call of the Wild. What do the boldfaced parts mean? This lost mine was steeped in tragedy and shrouded in mystery. No one knew of the first man. The oldest ...
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What does it mean to "meet the introduction halfway" in "The Call of the Wild"?

In chapter 1 of Jack London's The Call of the Wild, the dog Buck gets a beating: He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man ...
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Why did Martin Eden live at night with the gods in a colossal nightmare?

Re-reading Jack London's Martin Eden for my project, I've come across this passage: Martin had ascended from pitch to pitch of intellectual living, and here he was at a higher pitch than ever.  ...
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Why was The Call of the Wild banned?

I periodically see Jack London's The Call of the Wild on banned book lists, but I'm not sure why it would be – it doesn't seem that controversial. I found ALA's page cataloguing the reasons given for ...
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