The Mutiny of the Elsinore
Written by Jack London
Narrated by John Bolen
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Everyone who remembers The Sea Wolf with pleasure will enjoy this vigorous narrative. The Mutiny of the Elsinore is the same kind of tale as its famous predecessor, and it has been pronounced even more stirring by those who have read it. Jack London writes of scenes and types of people with which he is very familiar: the sea and ships and those who live in ships. In addition to the adventure element, of which there is an abundance of the usual London kind, there is a thread of romance. The play of incident-on the one hand the ship's amazing crew and on the other the lovers-results in a story that demonstrates anew what a master of his art the author is.
Jack London
Jack London nació en San Francisco en 1876, hijo ilegítimo de un astrólogo ambulante que pronto los abandonaría a él y a su madre, una joven «huida» de una acomodada familia de Ohio. Poco después de dar a luz, la madre se casó con John London, carpintero y vigilante jurado entre otros oficios, de quien el hijo tomaría el apellido. Jack dejó el colegio a los trece años, y desde entonces hasta los veintisiete, edad en la que se consagraría como escritor, su juventud fue inquieta y agitada: sus biógrafos y él mismo convertirían en leyenda sus múltiples trabajos y vagabundeos, de ladrón de ostras a buscador de oro en Alaska, así como su visionaria vocación política, formalizada con su ingreso en 1896 en el Partido Socialista de los Trabajadores. En 1903 publicó un reportaje sobre el proletariado del East End londinense, <i>Gente del abismo</i>, y <i>La llamada de la selva</i>, que le lanzó a la fama. Su experiencia marinera fue la base de <i>El lobo de mar</i> (1904), otro gran éxito, y a partir de entonces publicó asiduamente narrativa y ensayos, pronunció conferencias por todo el mundo y emprendió nuevos viajes. De uno de ellos nació un ciclo sobre los Mares del Sur, al que pertenecen los cuentos de <i>La casa del orgullo</i> (1909; ALBA CLÁSICA núm. ). Son de especial interés sus textos autobiográficos, la novela <i<Martin Eden</i> (1909) y las «memorias alcohólicas» de <i>John Barleycorn</i> (1913). London murió de una sobredosis de morfina y atropina en su rancho californiano, en 1916.
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