Theft, A Play (Annotated)

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Theft, A Play by Jack London.Another of Jack London's plays, Theft is a political piece set in Washington, DC. A congressman, Howard Knox, is ready to reveal the corrupt practices of Anthony Starkweather, a wealthy industrialist. To complicate matters, Starkweather's daughter is helping Knox. The underlying anti-capitalist theme of the work is also found in some of the other London works. The plot revolves around the retrieval of documents supporting Knox's revelations.Jack London, (born John Griffith Chaney; January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) John Griffith London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the world of magazine trade fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a world celebrity and earn a fortune by writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. His most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life". He also wrote about the South Pacific in stories like "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco