Internet Exercises


1			Information on Jack London's life and work can be found at http://london.sonoma.edu/. Visit http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/CallOfTheWild/. Where was this story first published? The website of Jack London State Park, in Sonoma County, is http://www.parks.sonoma.net/JLPark.html. Browse it and find out who built the House of Happy Walls, and where Jack London is buried. Did he write the verse "I'd Rather be Ashes than Dust"? Do the compilers of these sites agree?




2			Frank Norris's novel McTeague became the film Greed, produced by Erich Von Stroheim between 1923-1924, at a cost of nearly half a million dollars. This website http://www.filmsite.org/gree.html describes the plot and the production problems of "one of the greatest silent films ever made." Find out what made the costs so high. Why was the film so drastically edited? At http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/engl462/norris.htm you can view the young Frank Norris, and use hyperlinks to look at the text of several of his books.