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作者：（美国）杰克·伦敦（Jack London）
杰克·伦敦（Jack Lon）(1876-1916年)，美国20世纪著名的现实主义作家，是美国文学*重要的作家之一。出生于美国加利福尼亚旧金山的一个破产农民家庭。杰克·伦敦的作品笔力刚劲，语言质朴，情节富于戏剧性。他笔下那“严酷的事实”常常使读者受到强烈的心灵震撼。他的作品不仅在美国本土广为流传，而且受到世界各国人民的欢迎，是最受中国读者欢迎的外国作家之一。杰克·伦敦一生著述颇丰，其中最著名的有《马丁·伊登》、《野性的呼唤》、《雪虎》、《热爱生命》等。

我所看到的，是征服的迷人力量，是血色冒险及黄金潮的迷人力量。……生命既勇敢又狂野，而我正经历着我阅读了无数遍的冒险生活。
　　——杰克·伦敦

"Dump it in. Who's making this punch, anyway？" And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. "By the time you've beenin this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit-tracks andsalmon-belly, you'll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. Anda Christmas without punch is sinking a hole to bedrock with nary a pay-streak."
"Stack up on that fer a high cyard," approved Big Jim Belden, whohad come down from his claim on Mazy May to spend Christmas, andwho, as every one knew, had been living the two months past on straightmoose-meat. "Hain't fergot the hooch we-uns made on the Tanana, hevyeh？"
"Well, I guess yes. Boys, it would have done your hearts good to seethat whole tribe fighting drunk——and all because of a glorious ferment ofsugar and sour dough. That was before your time," Malemute Kid said ashe turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert who had been in twoyears. "No white women in the country then, and Mason wanted to getmarried. Ruth's father was chief of the Tananas, and objected, like the restof the tribe. Stiff？. Why, I used my last pound of sugar; finest work in thatline I ever did in my life. You should have seen the chase, down the riverand across the portage."
"But the squaw？" asked Louis Savoy, the tall French-Canadian,becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when at FortyMile the preceding winter.