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Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374178488
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
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"--
Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1466851694
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
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.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1620873648
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book An Autobiography of Jack London written by Jack London and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London has been a bestselling author for over one hundred years. In his short life (1876–1916), he wrote twenty-five novels, and dozens of short stories, plays, and essays. Today he is recognized as a forerunner of such literary giants as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Jack Kerouac. Author of a number of well-known, to say nothing of well-loved, stories in our literary canon (White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea Wolf, to name just three), London also worked as a day laborer, Alaskan gold rush prospector, and seaman. He was also an adventurer, journalist, celebrity, polemicist, and drunk. Illustrated throughout with drawings, facsimile pages from his works, and contemporary photographs, many taken by London himself, An Autobiography of Jack London is a revealing portrait of this complicated and fascinating man in his own words, and is largely composed of excerpts from his memoirs: The Road, John Barleycorn, and The Cruise of the Snark. More than a mere biographical summary of a man's life, An Autobiography of Jack London aims to give the reader real insight into the character and personality of this uniquely American literary icon.
Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820339709
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Jack London's Racial Lives written by Jeanne Campbell Reesman and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London (1876-1916), known for his naturalistic and mythic tales, remains among the most popular and influential American writers in the world. Jack London's Racial Lives offers the first full study of the enormously important issue of race in London's life and diverse works, whether set in the Klondike, Hawaii, or the South Seas or during the Russo-Japanese War, the Jack Johnson world heavyweight bouts, or the Mexican Revolution. Jeanne Campbell Reesman explores his choices of genre by analyzing racial content and purpose and judges his literary artistry against a standard of racial tolerance. Although he promoted white superiority in novels and nonfiction, London sharply satirized racism and meaningfully portrayed racial others--most often as protagonists--in his short fiction. Why the disparity? For London, racial and class identity were intertwined: his formation as an artist began with the mixed "heritage" of his family. His mother taught him racism, but he learned something different from his African American foster mother, Virginia Prentiss. Childhood poverty, shifting racial allegiances, and a "psychology of want" helped construct the many "houses" of race and identity he imagined. Reesman also examines London's socialism, his study of Darwin and Jung, and the illnesses he suffered in the South Seas. With new readings of The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden, and many other works, such as the explosive Pacific stories, Reesman reveals that London employed many of the same literary tropes of race used by African American writers of his period: the slave narrative, double-consciousness, the tragic mulatto, and ethnic diaspora. Hawaii seemed to inspire his most memorable visions of a common humanity.
Author : James L. Haley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 046502503X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Wolf written by James L. Haley and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning western historian James L. Haley paints a vivid portrait of Jack London--adventurer, social reformer, and the most popular American writer of his generation
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
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:
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Star Rover written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time."-From dust jacket.
Author : Russ Kingman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Pictorial Life of Jack London written by Russ Kingman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Jack London. Includes account of the period London spent in the Yukon.
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Call of the Wild written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Lourie
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0805097570
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush written by Peter Lourie and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -A middle grade biography of Jack London that sheds light on how he drew upon adventure and life experience to create works of literature---
Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : Facts on File
ISBN 13 : 9780816080847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Critical Companion to Jack London written by Jeanne Campbell Reesman and published by Facts on File. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary criticism of author Jack London's works including some biographical information.
Author : Jack London
Publisher : The Creative Company
ISBN 13 : 9781583415870
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)
Download or read book To Build a Fire written by Jack London and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.
Author : Franklin Walker
Publisher : Huntington Library Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jack London and the Klondike written by Franklin Walker and published by Huntington Library Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography, with particular attention to the time London spent in the Yukon, and critique of his Yukon writings.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Jack London written by and published by . This book was released on 1960* with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Martin Eden written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101105240
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories written by Jack London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-08-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Call of the Wild is Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Harrison Ford! Out of the white wilderness, out of the Far North, Jack London, one of America’s most popular authors, drew the inspiration for his robust tales of perilous adventure and animal cunning. Swiftly paced and vividly written, the novel and five short stories included here capture the main theme of London’s work: the law of the club and the fang—man’s instinctive reversion to primitive behavior when pitted against the brute force of nature. Includes The Call of the Wild, Diable: A Dog, An Odyssey of the North, To the Man on the Trail, To Build a Fire, and Love of Life
Author : Clarice Stasz
Publisher : New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312021603
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (216 download)
Download or read book American Dreamers written by Clarice Stasz and published by New York : St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, Jack London shocked the morals of his country when he left his wife and two young daughters for a spunky spinster five years his senior. A new breed of woman, Charmian Kitteridge was notorious for her activities that were unlike proper women of the day. Based on Charmian's journals, American Dreamers is a love story, and a fascinating portrait of a courageous couple.
