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THE MINISTRY OF THE HIGHER AND SECONDARY 
SPECIAL EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF 
UZBEKISTAN 
URGANCH STATE UNIVERSITY 
THE DEPARTMENT OF ROMAN-GERMAN PHILOLOGY 
THEME: JACK LONDON. LIFE AND WORKS. THEME 
AND PROBLEMS OF THE NOVEL ‘MARTIN EDEN’. 
NORTHERN STORIES. 
 
COURSE WORK 
 
 
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URGANCH– 2023
 

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CONTENTS
 
INTRODUCTION
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CHAPTER I. JACK LONDON'S LIFE AND WORK
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1.1.
The Life of Jack London .….………………………...……………..6 
1.2. Political views about Jack London..................................................14
 
CHAPTER II. ABOUT JACK LONDON'S MARTEN IDEN AND 
THE NORSE STORIES
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2.1.
 
Details about Jack London's Marten Eden and the problems it 
presents
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2.2.
 
Jack London's concept of Northern Tales...……………………….23 
 
CONCLUSION
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REFERENCES……………………….
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INTRODUCTION 
John Griffith Chaney
(January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known 
as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of 
commercial fiction and celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was 
also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a 
passionate advocate of animal rights, workers’ 
rights and socialism. London wrote several works 
dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian 
novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The 
People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, 
and Before Adam. His most famous works 
include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both 
set in Alaska and the Yukon during the Klondike 
Gold Rush, as well as the short American 
magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international 
stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also 
wrote about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The 
Heathen".  Jack London was born January , 1876.
His mother, Flora Wellman, was 
the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and 
his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was descended 
from Thomas Wellman, an early Puritan settler in the Massachusetts Bay 
Colony.  Flora left Ohio and moved to the Pacific coast when her father remarried 
after her mother died. In San Francisco, Flora worked as a music teacher 
and spiritualist, claiming to channel the spirit of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk.
Biographer 
Clarice 
Stasz 
and 
others 
believe 
London's 
father 
was astrologer William Chaney.
Flora Wellman was living with Chaney in San 
Francisco when she became pregnant. Whether Wellman and Chaney were legally 
married is unknown. Stasz notes that in his memoirs, Chaney refers to London's 
mother Flora Wellman as having been "his wife"; he also cites an advertisement in 

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which Flora called herself "Florence Wellman Chaney". According to Flora 
Wellman's account, as recorded in the San Francisco Chronicle of June 4, 1875, 
Chaney demanded that she have an abortion. When she refused, he disclaimed 
responsibility for the child. In desperation, she shot herself. She was not seriously 
wounded, but she was temporarily deranged. After giving birth, Flora sent the baby 
for wet-nursing to Virginia (Jennie) Prentiss, a formerly enslaved African-
American woman and a neighbor. Prentiss was an important maternal figure 
throughout London's life, and he would later refer to her as his primary source of 
love and affection as a child. Late in 1876, Flora Wellman married John London, a