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This article is part of a series that studies the life of Jack London, and especially his display of the Ancient Greek concept of thumos. “There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most [...]

This article is part of a series that studies the life of Jack London, and especially his display of the Ancient Greek concept of thumos. When the ship Excelsior docked in San Francisco in 1897, it carried word that would grant Jack London salvation from his mindless toil in a steam laundry: gold had been [...]

This article is part of a series that studies the life of Jack London, and especially his display of the Ancient Greek concept of thumos. As Jack London worked more than ten hours a day, seven days a week keeping thread wrapped around bobbins in a jute mill, his deep sea voyage, and with it [...]

This article is part of a series that studies the life of Jack London, and especially his display of the Ancient Greek concept of thumos. On January 12, 1893, his seventeenth birthday, Jack London signed onto the Sophie Sutherland, a splendid three-topmast schooner bound for seal hunting in the Bering Sea, and ultimately Japan. Jack [...]

This article is part of a series that studies the life of Jack London, and especially his display of the Ancient Greek concept of thumos. As fifteen-year-old Jack London toiled away in a steamy, rank pickle factory for ten cents an hour, he hatched a plan that would allow him to make much more money, [...]

This article is part of a series that studies the life of Jack London, and especially his display of the Ancient Greek concept of thumos.  John Griffith London was born in San Francisco in 1876 the illegitimate son of Flora Wellman — a free-loving spiritualist who conducted séances in her home. He never knew his [...]