HE QUIT SCHOOL AT FOURTEEN TO BECOME A SAILOR. HE WAS A SELF- TA...

1876. He quit school at fourteen to become a sailor. He was a self- taught student, he finished his high

school and college education during six months. He led an adventurous but poor life. His view point was

in favor of the poor and socialism. He read a lot of books of Karl Marx. He was influenced by Marxist Party

theory and the October Revolution. In 1985, he joined the Socialist Labour Party but in the last years of his

life, he moved away from the working class and in 1916 he left the party. In 1916 he committed suicide

because of despair dream. He used an overdose of morphine and drowned himself in the sea. He was an

adventure novelist, a Social reformer and a prominent socialist who often signed under the line “Yours for

revolution, Jack London.”