Jack London, pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th-century, he was one of the most extensively translated American authors. A self-taught professional deeply committed to his art and a supremely self-disciplined writer who churned out forty books and a thousand articles in less than twenty years, London never tired of declaring that he hated to write and that his motivations were entirely mercenary. Though he was a proletarian by background and was his era's most class-conscious writer, London was equally a man avid for wealth and fame. During the remainder of his life, London wrote and published steadily, completing some 50 books of fiction and nonfiction in 17 years. The Sheriff of Kona was first published in 1909. Kona is a “lotus land where every day is like every day, and every day is a paradise of days”, where it is always calm thanks to the special geography which shelters it from the violent winds that perpetually rage around the other Hawaiian islands nearby, and leaves only refreshing breezes and the cool mountain air that blows down from its magnificent mountains. Yet the Sheriff of Kona, an athlete and a giant, left this island paradise with all his family, and this sad story of disease and despair tells why and how. You can listen online to free English audiobook “The Sheriff of Kona” by Jack London on our website.
