杰克伦敦从西奥克兰的工厂和海滨潜水到了最高的薪水,最受欢迎他那个时代的小说家和短篇小说作家。他热情和丰富地写了关于生命和死亡的重大问题,生存的挣扎,有尊严和正直,他把这些元素创意转化为高冒险的故事在海上根据自己的亲身经验,或在阿拉斯加、加利福尼亚在田野和工厂。因此,他的作品不仅吸引了少数人,而且吸引了全世界数百万人。然而,除了他的书和故事,杰克·伦敦的个人事迹也广为人知。他是一个名人,一个经常出现在新闻中的生动而有争议的人物。总的来说,他喜欢玩乐,爱开玩笑,但也可能好斗,并很快站在弱者一边,反对不公正或任何形式的压迫。他是一位热情而雄辩的演说家,在社会主义和其他经济和政治话题上广受欢迎。尽管他公开宣称实行社会主义,但大多数人认为他是顽固个人主义的活生生的象征,他的惊人成功不是由于任何一种特殊的青睐,而是由于非凡的智力和巨大的活力的结合。他英俊非凡,笑口如流,躁动不安,勇于犯错,总是渴望在陆地或海上冒险,他是他那个时代最具魅力和浪漫的人物之一。杰克·伦敦把他文学上的成功很大程度上归功于勤奋——用他的话说就是“挖掘”。 He tried never to miss his early morning 1,000-word writing stint, and between 1900 and 1916 he completed over fifty books, including both fiction and non-fiction, hundreds of short stories, and numerous articles on a wide range of topics. Several of the books and many of the short stories are classics of their kind, well thought of in critical terms and still popular around the world. Today, almost countless editions of London’s writings are available and some of them have been translated into as many as seventy different languages. In addition to his daily writing stint and his commitments as a lecturer, London also carried on voluminous correspondence (he received some 10,000 letters per year), read proofs of his work as it went to press, negotiated with his various agents and publishers, and conducted other business such as overseeing construction of his custom-built sailing ship, the Snark (1906 – 1907), construction of Wolf House (1910 – 1913), and the operation of his beloved Beauty Ranch, which became a primary preoccupation after about 1911.

除此之外,他不得不不断为书籍和故事产生新的想法,并对他的写作进行必要的研究。不知何故,他设法做了所有这些东西,仍然找时间去旧金山湾游泳,骑马或航行。他还花了27个月巡航南太平洋在南太平洋,投入了两次职责作为海外战争记者,广泛旅行,随时随地享受持续的客人,每当他在格伦艾伦,他的公平份额房间社会化与辩论。为了将所有这些居住在一个寿命的狭窄范围内,他经常试图在晚上没有超过四到五个小时的睡眠。伦敦首次通过壮丽的自然景观吸引了索诺玛山谷,这是一个独特的高山,田野和溪流的组合,以及一个美丽的橡树,马克罗斯,加利福尼亚山脉,道格拉斯冷杉和红木树的混合森林。“当我第一次来到这里时,厌倦了城市和人民,我在一个小农场安顿下来...... 130英亩的最美丽,原始的土地在加利福尼亚州。”他不在乎农场坏了。相反,他在它的深峡谷和森林中启动了圆形的春天和溪流。“我想要的只是,”他稍后说,“在这个国家是一个安静的地方,写作和脱离自然,我们都需要的东西,我们只有大多数人都不知道。” Soon, however, he was busy buying farm equipment and livestock for his “mountain ranch.” He also began work on a new barn and started planning a fine new house. “This is to be no summer-residence proposition,” he wrote to his publisher in June 1905, “but a home all the year round. I am anchoring good and solid, and anchoring for keeps …” Born January 12, 1876, he was only 29, but he was already internationally famous for Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), and other literary and journalistic accomplishments.他从Bessie(Maddern)离婚,他的第一个妻子和他两个女儿,琼和小贝丝的母亲,他结婚了亚曼(Kittredge)。

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在格伦艾伦附近居住并拥有土地是逃离奥克兰的一种方式——逃离他称之为“男人陷阱”的城市生活方式。但是,尽管他对自己的牧场计划感到兴奋,伦敦仍然太过不安,太渴望国外旅行和冒险,无法在那里安定下来,度过他所有的时间。当他的谷仓和其他农场的改进还在建造的时候,他决定建造一艘船,环游世界——探索、写作、冒险——享受他渴望的“生活的重要时刻”,这将给他更多的素材来写。这次伟大的航行将持续七年,带着杰克和查尔米安环游世界。事实上,这只持续了27个月,他们“只”到达了南太平洋和澳大利亚。由于各种各样的健康问题,伦敦感到气馁,并为不得不放弃旅行和卖掉斯内克而伤心,他回到了格伦·艾伦和他的牧场计划。1909年、2010年和2011年,他购买了更多的土地,1911年从格伦·艾伦(Glen Ellen)搬到了他房产中间的一座小牧场。他骑马走遍乡村,探索每一个峡谷、峡谷和山顶。他投身于农业——科学农业——作为为数不多的正当的、基本的、理想的谋生方式之一。他后来写的很大一部分——燃烧日光(1910),月亮谷(1913),小女人的大房子》(1916)——和乡村生活的简单的快乐,生活的满意度直接和诚实的土地,从而剩余接近自然世界的现实。 Jack and Charmian London’s dream house began to take definite shape early in 1911 as Albert Farr, a well-known San Francisco architect, put their ideas on paper in the form of drawings and sketches, and then supervised the early stages of construction. It was to be a grand house – one that would remain standing for a thousand years. By August 1913, London had spent approximately $80,000 (in pre-World War I dollars), and the project was nearly complete. On August 22 final cleanup got underway and plans were laid for moving the Londons’ specially designed, custom-built furniture and other personal belongings into the mansion. That night – at 2 a. m. – word came that the house was burning. By the time the London arrived on the scene the house was ablaze in every corner, the roof had collapsed, and even a stack of lumber some distance away was burning. Nothing could be done. London looked on philosophically, but inside he was seriously wounded, for the loss was a crushing financial blow and the wreck of a long-cherished dream. Worse yet, he also had to face the probability that the fire had been deliberately set – perhaps by someone close to him.

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直到今天,这个谜仍未解开,但有明显的迹象表明,火灾是由在那个炎热的八月夜晚留在大楼里的油布自燃引起的。伦敦最终计划重建狼之家,但在1916年他去世时,这座房子仍然保持着今天的样子,这是一个独特、迷人但已破碎的梦想的鲜明而生动的遗迹。狼屋的毁灭让伦敦非常沮丧,但几天后他强迫自己回去工作。他从《时尚》杂志(Cosmopolitan Magazine)那里预支了2000美元(约合人民币3800元),为自己自1911年以来一直居住的那栋小木屋增添了一间新书房。在他心爱的农场中央,他继续创作文章、短篇小说和小说,这些作品的国际市场不断扩大。从他去东部纽约见他的出版商,或者去旧金山或洛杉矶做其他事情的时候开始。他还花了相当多的时间在他的30英尺长的快艇“漫游者”上生活和工作,他喜欢驾驶这艘船环绕旧金山湾和附近的萨克拉门托-圣华金三角洲。1914年,他以战地记者的身份前往墨西哥,报道美国军队和海军舰艇在维拉-卡兰萨起义中的作用。在1915年和1916年,查尔米安说服他在夏威夷呆了几个月,在那里他似乎更能放松,也更愿意照顾自己。然而,他最大的满足来自于他的农场活动,来自于他日益雄心勃勃的扩大农场和提高生产率的计划。 These plans kept him perpetually in debt and under intense pressure to keep on writing as fast as he could, even though it might mean sacrificing quality in favor of quantity. His doctors urged him to ease up, to change his work habits and his diet, to stop all use of alcohol, and to get more exercise. But he refused to change his way of life, and plunged on with his writing and his ranch, generously supporting friends and relations through it all. If anything, the press of his financial commitments and his increasingly severe health problems only made him expand his ambitions, dream even larger dreams, and work still harder and faster. On November 22, 1916, Jack London died of gastrointestinal uremic poisoning. He was 40 years of age and had been suffering from a variety of ailments, including a kidney condition that was extraordinarily painful at times. Nevertheless, right up to the last day of his life he was full of bold plans and boundless enthusiasm for the future.

引用这篇文章:威廉·安德森(学校工作助手编辑团队),《杰克·伦敦:传记和书籍》,在学校努力,2019年,//www.chadjarvis.com/jack-london-biography-books/

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