Child of the Night
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- Intermediate to advanced language learners studying Finnish who wish to use literary works for extensive reading practice
- University faculty and students engaged in translation studies and comparative literature on Jack London's works
- Digital humanities researchers who need to collect samples of public-domain e-books from Project Gutenberg
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- Chinese readers with no Finnish background who wish to read Jack London's stories casually
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- First confirm your level of Finnish, then decide whether to read closely or merely browse and excerpt passages.
- Read in parallel with the English text or a Chinese translation of Jack London's work to reduce difficulty.
- Jot down unfamiliar vocabulary and sentence patterns as you read, building up material for language learning.
- If using it for research, verify the edition information and original source first, and cite the e-book source.
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Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Jack London (1876–1916) was an American realist writer born in San Francisco; his original name was John Griffith Chaney. He left school early to make a living, worked as a sailor and a tramp, and once went to Alaska to search for gold. These hard experiences became an important source of his writing. His works cover a wide range of subjects and often focus on the harsh struggle for survival in the northern wilderness, the relationship between humans and animals, and the misery of the lower classes. His style is vigorous and forceful, his plots are tightly constructed, and his writing combines adventure with social criticism. His representative works include The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang and Martin Eden. The library holds 91 of his works, including White Fang, Martin Eden, The Iron Heel and The People of the Abyss. He wrote about 50 works in his lifetime and is one of the most widely translated American writers of the twentieth century.
