Love of Life

Jack London is truly a great writer. And “Love of Life” is truly a great book. In America, where he is from, they no longer read him there—they remember him only for Irving Stone’s book “The Man in the Saddle,” which is a book about Jack’s life. In Russia, his books have taken hold better, probably because Jack London was a socialist, and Lenin himself liked his books. Thanks to our history, London is popular here; his books are studied in school. For my part, I’d like to note that the book is good not only in meaning but also in style, in how it is written. When you read it, you become fully immersed in it. I tried to convey the book’s atmosphere in this brief summary of Jack London’s book “Love of Life.” That’s why it turned out so long, even though I managed to shorten it quite a lot.