According to legend, London’s piles of rejection slips from publishers grew to five feet in height!

　　Even so, London preserved. In 1903, he earned national fame when he published the popular novel The Call of the Wild. He soon became the highest paid and most industrious writer in the country. During his career, he produced more than fifty books and earned more than a million dollars. Several of his novels, including The Call of the Wild(1903),the Sea-Wolf(1904),the White Fang(1906),have become American classics. In fact, he was a creative writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures: the Yukon, California, Hawaii, and the Solomon Islands. He experimented with many literary forms, from traditional love stories and dystopias（反面乌托邦小说）to science fantasy. His noted journalism included war communication, boxing stories, and the life of Molokai lepers（麻风病患者）. He was among the most influential figures of his day, who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self-created image of poor-boy-turned-success. London's great passion was agriculture, and he was well on the way of creating a new model for spreading through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40. He left over fifty books of novels, stories, journalism, and essays, many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world. His best works describe a person’s struggle for survival against the powerful forces of nature. “To Build a Fire”, for example, tells the story of a man’s fight to survive the harsh cold of the Alaskan winter.

【浙江省2016高考英语二轮复习 专题训练 阅读理解（7）】相关文章：

★ 河南省三门峡市2014高考英语一轮（暑假）基础训练（5）附答案

★ 浙江省2016高考英语二轮复习 专题训练 阅读理解（54）

★ 湖南省长沙县实验中学2016届高三英语二轮复习书面表达复习重点话题指导专题14 社会交际类话题指导（学生版）

★ 【优化方案】2017届高考英语二轮复习全国卷Ⅱ规范练：7（含解析）

★ 湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (33)

★ 2017届高考英语二轮复习大题冲关秘籍完形填空之记叙文：应试策略（含解析）

★ （全国通用）2014届高考英语一轮单元复习 限时强化训练一

★ 河南省三门峡市2014高考英语一轮（暑假）基础训练（13）附答案

★ 【课堂新坐标】2017届高考英语（通用版）二轮复习书面表达专题训练：训练4 书信、邮件＋议论文（Ⅱ）（含解析）

★ 贵州省贵阳市2014高考英语（新人教版）一轮阅读训练（6）附答案