{"product_id":"2940013260849","title":"A Collection of Stories","description":"John Griffith \"Jack\" London (born John Griffith Chaney,[1] January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916)[2][3][4][5] was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning 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.[6] He is best remembered as the author of 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\".[citation needed] 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLondon was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.","brand":"NOOKbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069898506480,"sku":"2940013260849","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013260849_p0.jpg?v=1763579082","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013260849","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}