All the 400,000 saplings he planted died; The thoroughbred horses, pigs, cows and sheep in his pasture also died one after another. He was exhausted and caused diseases, among which uremia was the most troublesome. Extreme psychological isolation and great physical pain made him drown his sorrows by drinking and become more and more addicted to alcohol. Maybe he felt too tired that night and needed relief, so he ended his life with morphine.
Extended information Jack London, formerly known as John Griffith London (1876 65438+ 10/0/916 65438+122 October). He wrote 19 novels, 150 short stories and stories, and 3 plays. His major works include: Son of the Wolf, novella The Call of the Wild, Love for Life, White Teeth, and novels The Sea-Wolf, Iron Feet and Martin Eden.
Jack London was born in a bankrupt peasant family in San Francisco on 1876. Because of his poor family, he was engaged in manual labor since childhood, worked as a child laborer, stevedore and sailor, and then wandered around the United States. I studied at the University of California, Berkeley. I was forced to drop out of school because of poverty and joined the ranks of gold diggers in Alaska and other places.
The rough life experience in his early years provided rich materials for his later creation. His creative thoughts are complicated and influenced by Marx, Spencer, Nietzsche and others. In his youth works, he is beating the pulse of challenging capitalist society. After becoming famous, he gradually fell into extreme individualism and emptiness, and died of morphine overdose on1October 22, 2006+091kloc-0/65438.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Jack London