A prolific and enduringly popular author – Jack London – is also considered to be an icon of American fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. With his thirst for adventure, his rags-to-riches success story, and his progressive political ideas, London’s stories mirrored the passing of the American frontier and the nation’s transformation into an urban-industrial system. Having a keen eye and an innate sense, he recognized that the country’s growing readership was ready for a different kind of writing. So he developed the style that is direct, robust and vivid. Notably, in his fictional universe, lone wolves die and abusive alpha males never win out in the end. At the seminar we will have a closer look into one of his painstakingly well-constructed Klondike stories where London’s “strength of utterance” is at its height. Please join us on Wednesday, June 6 at 7 p.m. Led by Anna Dvoretskaya, senior teacher of English at RANEPA, has a TESOL/TESL/TEFL certificate.