Description

Critical Companion to Jack London is a comprehensive reference to the life and works of this prolific author as well as some of the themes that can be found in his writing.

Coverage includes:

-A concise but thorough biography of London

-Entries on all of London's major works, including novels such as The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Martin Eden, The Iron Heel, and The Sea-Wolf; stories such as "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North," and "The Law of Life"; essays, travel books, and other works of nonfiction; and much more. Each entry on a fictional work contains subentries on the work's main characters

-Entries on related people, places, and topics, such as Joseph Conrad, dystopian fiction, "Manifest Destiny," wolves, and the Yukon Territory

-Appendixes, including a chronology, a bibliography of London's works, and a secondary-source bibliography.