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.”