De kracht van den sterke

By Jack London

De korteverhalenbundel De kracht van den sterke (1914) bevat een zevental korte verhalen van Jack London. Het verhaal waaraan de titel van de bundel is ontleend speelt zich af in een vroege menselijke nederzetting. London werkt op microschaal uit hoe de economie in een kleine gemeenschap tot stand komt. Zo laat London ons nadenken over onze eigen, veel grotere economische en maatschappelijke structuren die men in de regel voor lief neemt.-

• Language: Nederlands
• Publisher: SAGA Egmont
• Release date: Oct 25, 2019
• ISBN: 9788726128741

Jack London

Jack London was born in San Francisco on January 12th 1876, the unwanted child of a spiritualist mother and astrologer father. He was raised by Virginia Prentiss, a former slave, before rejoining his mother and her new husband, John London. Largely self-educated, the teenage Jack made money stealing oysters and working on a schooner before briefly studying at the University of Berkeley in 1896. He left to join the Klondike Gold Rush a year later, a phenomenon that would go on to form the background of his literary masterpieces, The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Alongside his novel writing London dabbled in war reportage, agriculture and politics. He was married twice and had two daughters from his first marriage. London died in 1916 from complications of numerous chronic illnesses.

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