杰克·伦敦是19世纪末20世纪初一位非常重要的美国小说家,在其短短的一生中创作了大量的作品。1890年美国人口普查标志着美国大陆边疆移动的结束,农业社会逐步被工业社会所替代。于是转型时期的美利坚民族开始眷恋刚逝去的边疆农业生活并且反思兴起的工业城市文明。作为作家的杰克·伦敦对美国边疆有着非同寻常的情节,这一边疆情节主要体现在两方面:一是伦敦自身在边疆上冒险传奇般的经历,二是伦敦创作了大量与边疆紧密相关的作品。 Jack London was a very important American novelist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who wrote many works in his short life span. The 1890 US Census marks the end of the movement of the continental United States, where agricultural society is gradually being replaced by industrial society. As a result, the American nation in the transitional period began to cherish the agricultural realm of the just-gone frontier and to reflect on the rise of an industrialized urban civilization. As a writer, Jack London has an extraordinary plot on the American frontier. The border plot is mainly reflected in two aspects. One is London’s own legendary adventure on the frontier. The second is that London has created a large number of borderland-related issues works.