The Valley of the Moon - London, Jack
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The Valley of the Moon is Jock London's story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, who are struggling laborers in Oakland at the turn of the 19th Century. They left city life searching Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own. The Valley of the Moon is notable for the scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Valley of the Moon located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California. Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the…mehr

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The Valley of the Moon is Jock London's story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, who are struggling laborers in Oakland at the turn of the 19th Century. They left city life searching Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own. The Valley of the Moon is notable for the scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Valley of the Moon located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in Sonoma County, California. Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist, a pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd", in San Francisco, and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.