All 8 Uses
Jack London
in
Into the Wild
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- Gallien wondered whether he'd picked up one of those crackpots from the lower forty-eight who come north to live out ill-considered Jack London fantasies.†
p. 4.7 *Jack London = U.S. writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush (1876-1916)
- Jack London is King†
p. 9.1
- Jack London, White Fang†
p. 9.7
- Jack London, The Call of the Wild†
p. 38.3
- Liked to read books by that Alaska guy, Jack London.†
p. 42.4
- Alex was big on the classics: Dickens, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain, Jack London.†
p. 43.9
- The only difference is that McCandless ended up dead, with the story of his dumbassedness splashed across the media....(Jack London got it right in "To Build a Fire."†
p. 71.9
- He was also able to forgive, or overlook, the shortcomings of his literary heroes: Jack London was a notorious drunk; Tolstoy, despite his famous advocacy of celibacy, had been an enthusiastic sexual adventurer as young man and went on to father at least thirteen children, some of whom were conceived at the same time the censorious count was thundering in print against the evils of sex.†
p. 122.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(Jack London) U.S. writer of novels based on experiences in the Klondike gold rush and is best remembered for his novella, The Call of the Wild (1876-1916)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)