Adventure
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Set on a copra plantation in the Solomon Islands, Jack London's novel follows a struggling plantation owner whose life is disrupted by the arrival of a self-reliant American woman. Readers drawn to early twentieth-century adventure fiction and colonial-era Pacific settings will find it of interest.
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Jack London: An Introduction for New ReadersAn American writer of frontier adventure, animal stories and political fiction, and where a newcomer might begin.
Jack London
John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.
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