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Joe Fleming works as a sailmaker and provides for his mother and sisters. He adds extra money by participating in boxing matches at sporting clubs. He is about to tie the knot with Genevieve, whose job is in the Silversteins’ candy store. Joe decides to quit gaming but requests that Genevieve attend to his final game, on the night of their marriage, and she hesitantly said yes. The Game is narrated from Genevieve’s way of thinking. John Griffith “Jack” London born John Griffith Chaney was a U.S. author, journalist, and social activist. A forerunner in the earlier expanding world of industrial magazine fiction, he was among the first fiction novelists to acquire international celebrity and an enormous success through only his fiction, as well as science fiction. A few of his best known novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both situated in the Klondike Gold Rush and the short tales To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life. He also authored of the South Pacific in tales including The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.London joined the extremist literary group The Crowd in San Francisco and a devoted promoter of unionization, socialism, and the rights of laborers. He composed numerous formidable writings about these matters, like his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction depiction The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.Jack London’s 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 derived from Thomas Wellman, one of the first Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Flora left Ohio and settled in the Pacific coast when her father re-wedded after the death of her mother. In San Francisco, Flora became a music instructor and spiritualist, asserting to channel the soul of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk.
Product ID: 9781776727032
Sku: YP-B7OC-43D7
