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Charmian Kittredge London

Author : Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806168390
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Charmian Kittredge London written by Iris Jamahl Dunkle and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charmian Kittredge London (1871–1955) was the epitome of a modern woman. Free-spirited and adventurous, she defied modern expectations of femininity. Today she is best known as the wife of the famous American author Jack London, yet she was a literary trailblazer in her own right. This biography is the first book to tell the complete story of Charmian’s life—freed from the shadow cast by her famous husband. In this biography, Iris Jamahl Dunkle draws the reader into Charmian’s private and public worlds, underscoring her literary achievements and the significant role she played in promoting her husband’s legacy. Her life, as Dunkle emphasizes, required fortitude and bravery, and in many ways it paralleled the history of the American West. Born on the mudflats of what would become Los Angeles’s harbor, Charmian became an orphan at age fourteen. Raised by her aunt Netta Wiley Ames, a noted writer and editor for the Overland Monthly, Charmian attended college, became an expert equestrian and concert pianist, and had a successful career as a stenographer. But her life shifted when, in 1905, she married Jack London, already a bestselling author. For the rest of Jack’s life, until his untimely death at the age of forty, reporters would follow the couple’s every move. Charmian and Jack traveled the world, exploring and writing together. In addition to collaborating with Jack on many of his projects, Charmian wrote three books about her travels, as well as countless articles. After Jack’s death in 1916, she remained a celebrity, continuing to travel and write—and seek adventure. She also wrote a biography about her late husband and managed his estate, influencing how Jack’s literary legacy was remembered. Charmian Kittredge London is a central figure in California cultural history. Now, thanks to Dunkle’s riveting portrait, readers have the opportunity to embark on the grand adventure that was her life.

Our Hawaii

Author : Charmian London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Our Hawaii written by Charmian London and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Hawaii by Charmian London, first published in 1917, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

The Secret Life of Mrs. London

Author : Rebecca Rosenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781542048736
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Life of Mrs. London written by Rebecca Rosenberg and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco, 1915. As America teeters on the brink of world war, Charmian and her husband, famed novelist Jack London, wrestle with genius and desire, politics and marital competitiveness. Charmian longs to be viewed as an equal partner who put her own career on hold to support her husband, but Jack doesn't see it that way...until Charmian is pulled from the audience during a magic show by escape artist Harry Houdini, a man enmeshed in his own complicated marriage. Suddenly, charmed by the attention Houdini pays her and entranced by his sexual magnetism, Charmian's eyes open to a world of possibilities that could be her escape. As Charmian grapples with her urge to explore the forbidden, Jack's increasingly reckless behavior threatens her dedication. Now torn between two of history's most mysterious and charismatic figures, she must find the courage to forge her own path, even as she fears the loss of everything she holds dear.

The Log of the Snark

Author : Charmian London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Log of the Snark written by Charmian London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of Jack London

Author : Charmian London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Jack London written by Charmian London and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years after Jack London’s death, his wife Charmian released a 2-volume biography of his life. Volume I starts with the origins of his parents, John and Flora, and covers Jack’s childhood and early life growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. It also covers his oyster pirating, Klondike trips, and time spent riding the railroads. The book is full of his letters to Cloudesley Johns, Anna Strunsky, and others. The first volume ends with his voyage to Asia to cover the Japanese-Russian War. Volume II starts with his return from Korea after war-reporting and his divorce from his first wife. It covers their trip on the Snark and trips to New York and around Cape Horn. The 'bad year' when his house burns is described in detail, as is a return to Hawaii and the start of World War I. The volume ends with Jack's death in 1916.

Jack London: An American Life

Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374178488
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Jack London: An American Life written by Earle Labor and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--

Jack London

Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466851694
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Jack London written by Alex Kershaw and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised in poverty as an illegitimate child, Jack London dropped out of school to support his mother, working in mind-deadening jobs that would foster a lifelong interest in socialism. Brilliant and self-taught, he haunted California's waterside bars, brawling with drunken sailors and learning about love from prostitutes. His lust for adventure took him from the beaches of Hawaii to the gold fields of Alaska, where he experienced firsthand the struggles for survival he would later immortalize in classics like White Fang and The Call of the Wild. A hard-drinking womanizer with children to support, Jack London was no stranger to passion when he met and married Charmian Kittredge, the love of his life. Despite his adventurous past, London had never before met a woman like Charmian; she adored fornication and boxing, and willingly risked life and limb to sail and explore. She typed his manuscripts while he churned out novels, serving as his inspiration and his critic. Lover, fighter, and onetime hobo, Jack London lived large and died before he was forty. This is a rare biography, from bestselling historian Alex Kershaw, that proves the truth can be more fascinating--and a far greater adventure--than a fiction.

Jack London's Women

Author : Clarice Stasz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625340658
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Jack London's Women written by Clarice Stasz and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the women in the life of an American icon

The Gilded Edge

Author : Catherine Prendergast
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593182928
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Edge written by Catherine Prendergast and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Gilded Edge is a compelling read from start to finish. Gripping, suspenseful, cinematic. This is narrative nonfiction at its best.”—Lindsey Fitzharris, bestselling author of The Butchering Art Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthquake-ravaged San Francisco and the Monterey Peninsula, the true story of two women—a wife and a poet—who learn the high price of sexual and artistic freedom in a vivid depiction of the debauchery of the late Gilded Age Nora May French and Carrie Sterling arrive at Carmel-by-the-Sea at the turn of the twentieth century with dramatically different ambitions. Nora, a stunning, brilliant, impulsive writer in her early twenties, seeks artistic recognition and Bohemian refuge among the most celebrated counterculturalists of the era. Carrie, long-suffering wife of real estate developer George Sterling, wants the opposite: a semblance of the stability she thought her advantageous marriage would offer, threatened now that her philandering husband has taken to writing poetry. After her second abortion, Nora finds herself in a desperate situation but is rescued by an invitation to stay with the Sterlings. To Carrie's dismay, George and the arrestingly beautiful poetess fall instantly into an affair. The ensuing love triangle, which ultimately ends with the deaths of all three, is more than just a wild love story and a fascinating forgotten chapter. It questions why Nora May—in her day a revered poet whose nationally reported suicide gruesomely inspired youths across the country to take their own lives, with her verses in their pockets no less—has been rendered obscure by literary history. It depicts America at a turning point, as the Gilded Age groans in its death throes and young people, particularly women, look toward a brighter, more egalitarian future. In an unfortunately familiar development, this vision proves to be a mirage. But women's rage at the scam redefines American progressivism forever. For readers of Nathalia Holt, Denise Kiernan, and Sonia Purnell, this shocking history with a feminist bite is not to be missed.

Author Under Sail

Author : Jay Williams
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496223047
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Author Under Sail written by Jay Williams and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902–1907, Jay Williams explores Jack London’s necessity to illustrate the inner workings of his vast imagination. In this second installment of a three-volume biography, Williams captures the life of a great writer expressed though his many creative works, such as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, as well as his first autobiographical memoir, The Road, some of his most significant contributions to the socialist cause, and notable uncompleted works. During this time, London became one of the most famous authors in America, perhaps even the author with the highest earnings, as he prepared to become an equally famous international writer. Author Under Sail documents London’s life in both a biographical and writerly fashion, depicting the importance of his writing experiences as his career followed a trajectory similar to America’s from 1876 to 1916. The underground forces of London’s narratives were shaped by a changing capitalist society, media outlets, racial issues, increases in women’s rights, and advancements in national power. Williams factors in these elements while exploring London’s deeply conflicted relationship with his own authorial inner life. In London’s work, the imagination is figured as a ghost or as a ghostlike presence, and the author’s personas, who form a dense population among his characters, are portrayed as haunted or troubled in some way. Along with examining the functions and works of London’s exhaustive imagination, Williams takes a critical look at London’s ability to tell his stories to wide arrays of audiences, stitching incidents together into coherent wholes so they became part of a raconteur’s repertoire. Author Under Sail provides a multidimensional examination of the life of a crucial American storyteller and essayist.

Love of Life and Other Stories

Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Love of Life and Other Stories written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

West

Author : Iris Jamahl Dunkle
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 188563577X
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book West written by Iris Jamahl Dunkle and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poetry collection that challenges preconceived, androcentric ideas about biography, autobiography, and history fueled by the western myth of progress presented in Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier thesis."

Jack London in the Southern Seas, by Charmian Kittredge London (Mrs. Jack London).

Author : Charmian London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Jack London in the Southern Seas, by Charmian Kittredge London (Mrs. Jack London). written by Charmian London and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jack London

Author : Gorman Beauchamp
Publisher : Borgo Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Jack London written by Gorman Beauchamp and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blindfold

Author : Siri Hustvedt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501176498
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Blindfold written by Siri Hustvedt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Blazing World, “a work of dizzying intensity…eloquent and vivid” (Don DeLillo), about a young Midwestern woman who finds herself entangled in intense circumstances—physical, cerebral, and existential—when she moves to New York City. Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires a strong life of its own, appearing and disappearing without warning around the city. After a series of blinding migraines, Iris ends up in a hospital room with Mrs. O., a woman who has lost her mind and memory to a stroke, but who nevertheless retains both the strength and energy to torment her fellow patient. And finally, there is Professor Rose, Iris’s teacher and eventually her lover. While working with him on the translation of a German novella called The Brutal Boy, she discovers in its protagonist, Klaus, a vehicle for her own transformation and ventures out into the city again—this time dressed as a man.

‘No Mentor but Myself’

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804736367
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book ‘No Mentor but Myself’ written by Jack London and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For this edition of Jack London's observations on the craft of writing—culled from essays, reviews, letters, and autobiographical writings—a significant amount of new material has been added.

The Jack London Story and the Beauty Ranch

Author : Caroline Crawford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015942479
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Jack London Story and the Beauty Ranch written by Caroline Crawford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.