Jack London (1899 - 1961)

RESOURCES:

• Journal articles from academic databases (click here for section one).
• Books. Print and electronic (eBooks) books (click here for section two).
• Critical and biographical Web sites (click here for section three).

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SECTION ONE: Journal articles from academic databases. <back to page top>

Literary topics are among the more difficult to research in online databases. To assist you in this, the following are specific recommendations regarding Jack London.

DATABASE	SEARCH TERMS	RESULTS
Academic Search Premier	jack london Perform the basic search.	Provides a large number of relevant items.
Arts & Sciences Collections I & II	jack london JSTOR, the search system for Arts & Sciences Collections I & II, searches within its various journal "collections" (click here for details).	Provides a large number of revelant documents.
Encyclopedia Britannica	jack london Perform the default search.	Provides a primary encyclopedia article and a number of related Web sites.
Expanded Academic ASAP	jack london Perform the Subject search. Use the checkboxes to search limit your search "to articles with text".	Provides a large number of relevant items.
Literature Resource Center	jack london Perform the default (author) search and select the link to London, Jack (1876-1916). After you perform your search, be sure to select each of the tabs for biography, criticisms, Web links, and journal articles.	Provides a number of quality documents.
MagillOnLiterature	jack london Perform the default search.	Provides a number of relevant items.
Research Library Complete	jack london Perform the basic search. Set the "Database:" drop-down menu to "Interdisciplinary - Research Library." Use the checkboxes to search limit your search to "Full text articles only" and"Scholarly journals."	Provides a large number of quality items.
Scribner's	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the links: LONDON, JACK, LONDON, JACK: Writers for Young Adults	Provides essays about the author and his works, along with a bibliography.
SIRS Renaissance	jack london Perform the "Quick Search."	Provides a number of quality items.
Twayne Authors Series - Twayne World, English, and US Authors	Select “Writers A-Z” and click on the London, Jack link.	Provides a small number of quality items.

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SECTION TWO: Troy Library book holdings. <back to page top>

 

• The following bibliography is for selected holdings. For complete holdings consult the Online Catalog.
  
• Circulating books not available at your local library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
  
• eBooks are electronic books that Troy makes available (immediately) to its users worldwide via the Internet.
  
  
  To find works written by Jack London, do a catalog search for jack london and select the Author option. To find works written about the author, select the Search everything option. The following are selected titles from among the Troy libraries’ holdings. Search the library catalog for more results..

  Notable American novelists
  Location: eBook

  The Call of the Wild : Annotated and Illustrated
  Location: eBook

  Jack London's Strong Truths
  Location: eBook

  The Unabridged Jack London
  Location: eBook

  The Scab
  Location: eBook

  The Jack London Reader
  Location: eBook

  The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories
  Location: eBook

  The Faith of Men
  Location: eBook

  Moon-face and Other Stories
  Location: eBook

  The Sea-wolf
  Location: eBook

  Martin Eden
  Location: eBook

  The Night-born
  Location: eBook

  Tales of the Fish Patrol
  Location: eBook

  The Red One
  Location: eBook

  White Fang
  Location: eBook

  The Strength of the Strong
  Location: eBook

  Tales of Adventure
  Location: eBook

  The Game
  Location: eBook

  South Sea Tales
  Location: eBook

  The Jacket
  Location: eBook

  
  Burning Daylight
  Location: eBook

  Jerry of the Islands
  Location: eBook

  Before Adam
  Location: eBook

  The Call of the Wild
  Location: eBook

  The Iron Heel
  Location: eBook

  Michael, Brother of Jerry
  Location: eBook

  The Human Drift
  Location: eBook

  Smoke Bellew
  Location: eBook

  The Valley of the Moon
  Location: eBook

  John Barleycorn
  Location: eBook

  The Son of the Wolf
  Location: eBook

  The People of the Abyss
  Location: eBook

  To Build a Fire
  Location: eBook

  Adventure
  Location: eBook

  Tales of the Klondyke
  Location: eBook

  Love of Life and Other Stories
  Location: eBook

  Strength of the Strong
  Location: eBook

  War of the Classes
  Location: eBook

  Rereading Jack London
  PS3523 .O46 Z8715 1996
  Location: Troy, AL

  Irving Stone's Jack London, his life, Sailor on horseback (a biography), and twenty-eight selected Jack London stories
  PS3523 .O46 Z9 1977
  Location: Phenix City

  Jack London : one hundred years a writer
  PS3523 .O46 Z654 2002
  Location: Troy, AL

  Jack London
  PS3523 .O46 Z648 2001
  Location: Phenix City

  Before Adam
  PS3523.O46 B43 1962
  Location: Troy, AL

  Jack London, sailor on horseback : a biography
  PS3523.O46 Z9 1978
  Location: Troy, AL

  The novels of Jack London : a reappraisal
  PS3523.O46 Z9954 1983
  Location: Troy, AL

  The letters of Jack London
  PS3523.O46 Z48 1988
  Location: Troy, AL

  Jack London--a life of adventure
  PS3523.O46 Z58 1992
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  Letters from Jack London : containing an unpublished correspondence between London and Sinclair Lewis
  PS3523.O46 Z53 1966
  Location: Troy, AL

  Jack : a biography of Jack London
  PS3523.O46 Z876
  Location: Troy, AL; Phenix City; Montgomery

  Writing the urban jungle : reading empire in London from Doyle to Eliot
  PR8472 .M37 2000
  Location: Troy, AL

  Lone wolf; the story of Jack London
  PS3523.O46 Z62 1962
  Location: Troy, AL

  Jack London and his times; an unconventional biography
  PS3523.O46 Z75 1939A
  Location: Troy, AL

  Jack London and the Klondike : the genesis of an American writer
  PS3523 .O46 Z995 1966A
  Location: Phenix City

  Jack London : the man, the writer, the rebel
  PS3523 .O46 Z6116 1976
  Location: Phenix City

  Critical essays on Jack London
  PS3523.O46 Z98195 1983
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  California writers : Jack London, John Steinbeck, the tough guys
  PS283.C2 M35 1983X
  Location: Dothan

  Jack London--an American radical?
  PS3523.O46 Z656 1984
  Location: Dothan

  Male call : becoming Jack London
  PS3523 .O46 Z53 1996
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan; Montgomery

  Curious fragments : Jack London's tales of fantasy fiction
  PS 3523 O46 C8
  Location: Troy, AL; Dothan

  No mentor but myself : a collection of articles, essays, reviews, and letters on writing and writers
  PS3523 .O46 A6 1979
  Location: Phenix City

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SECTION THREE: Critical and biographical Web sites. <back to page top>

• Jack London
  http://parks.sonoma.net/JLStory.html
  
• Jack London
  http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jlondon.htm
  
• John Griffiths London
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/jack.html
  
• The Philosophy of Jack London
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Essays/philosophy.html
  
• Jack London on the Great War
  http://www.worldwar1.com/sflondon.htm
  
• The Rise and Fall of Jack London in Poland, 1909-1993: A Bibliographical Essay
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Essays/RiseFall/risefall.html
  
• The Call of the Wild
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Essays/callwild.html
  
• Jack London’s Writings
  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings
  
• PAL: Jack London
  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap6/london.html
  
• Jack London Followed his Muse into the Wild
  http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues98/feb98/jack.html
  
• London, Jack – University of Maryland
  http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Fiction/London
  
• Jack London Letters, etc.
  http://carl-bell-2.baylor.edu/~bellc/JL/letters.html