The Radical Jack London

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255461
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Radical Jack London written by Jack London and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This splendid volume does more than reinstate Jack London as a leading voice of the American cultural left. Jonah Raskin documents how London struggled to reconcile his political and his personal desires, creating memorable art but failing to save himself. One of the world's most popular writers comes alive, in all his passion and agony."—Michael Kazin, author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan "Interest in Jack London never flags. This first-rate anthology places London at the epicenter of the American radical tradition."—Kevin Starr, University of Southern California "In this well conceptualized anthology, Jonah Raskin has resurrected works that have been unavailable for decades, making The Radical Jack London a very timely presence for the twenty-first century. Raskin's own writing is forceful and engaging, and he is unblinkingly honest about London as person and as writer, never succumbing to romanticizing or whitewashing the picture of either."—H. Bruce Franklin, John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies, Rutgers University "Jack London always knew how to bang a righteous drum of social indignation, and in The Radical Jack London he can make your heart pound even today."—Paul Berman, author of Power and the Idealists and editor of Carl Sandburg: Selected Poems

Jack London--an American Radical?

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Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Jack London--an American Radical? by : Carolyn Johnston

Download or read book Jack London--an American Radical? written by Carolyn Johnston and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jack London's Racial Lives

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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820339709
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Jack London's Racial Lives by : Jeanne Campbell Reesman

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.

The Jack London Reader

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Publisher : Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780762405466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Jack London Reader written by Jack London and published by Running Press Book Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London's tales of brutal conflict, fierce determination, and the challenge of uncharted rerritories shocked and fascinated readers. To his own experiences of sailing the Pacific and exploring the Klondike he added a remarkable insight into the human condition and an acute sensitivity for the struggle of man against nature.

Revolution, and Other Essays

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Revolution, and Other Essays written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London was a Socialist at heart, having been born into the working class and rising through hard work to be one of the most successful writers in the world. Though it was that system that made him rich, he had disdain for capitalism in general. His stories told of rugged individualism, but he believed in socialism. This book contains 13 short essays that convey those beliefs.

Great Short Works of Jack London

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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Great Short Works of Jack London written by Jack London and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1970 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LITERATURE-CLASSICS & CONTEMPORARY

Wolf

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ISBN 13 : 046502503X
Total Pages : 402 pages
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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

The Call of the Wild

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
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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:

Jack London: An American Life

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374178488
Total Pages : 482 pages
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The Works of Jack London. --: Adventure

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Jack London. --: Adventure written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jack London

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ISBN 13 : 9781939375032
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Jack London written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack London's most inspired political texts, collected in one volume. Even a century after his death, Jack London remains one of America's most iconic authors. Born poor, and rising to become America's first millionaire writer, London was the living embodiment of the American Dream. His very life illustrated for many the limitless possibilities available to every man, woman and child living in America's capitalist society. What is often overlooked in these reminiscences, though, is the disdain London harbored for capitalism throughout his adult life. Before he wrote the stories that made him famous, before his rugged adventures on the sea, Jack London was an avowed socialist. Jack London: The Socialist Writings represents the most comprehensive collection of London's political texts available. This volume contains the full texts of London's most significant socialist works. In The People of the Abyss, London documents the deplorable conditions faced by England's poverty-stricken population. War of the Classes highlights the repeated failings of America's unchecked capitalism at the turn of the twentieth century. In Revolution and Other Essays, London is at his political best: thought provoking, witty, and inspiring as he argues for a transition from capitalism to a socialist economy. Also included are eight of London's most astute short essays, chronicling three decades of a maturing political philosophy: "What Socialism Is," "Laws Direct from Voters," "The Principles of the Republican Party," "The Economics of the Klondike," "The Apostate," "War," "Resignation from the Glen Ellen Socialist Party," and "Foreword to Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist." Here we see the development of London's socialist thought from his days as Oakland's orating "boy socialist" until weeks before his death. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the life and work of Jack London.

Fantastic Tales

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Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
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Download or read book Fantastic Tales written by Jack London and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifteen fantastic tales, ranging far in time and space, from the psychological tension of an extraterrestrial encounter to a frontier tall tale of a trapper hunting a mammoth.

Jack London

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ISBN 13 : 9781853757488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Jack London written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five notable novels from Jack London are collected in this volume for the adventurer in everyone. The Call of the Wild, Jack London s second novel, made him truly famous. Published without any great expectations for commercial success, the story of the pet dog turned wolf pack leader became a huge bestseller. White Fang, like The Call of the Wild, explores the theme of contrast between civilization and savagery when a wild wolf cub is brought up by humans only to become a champion fighting dog. The Game revolves around boxing, London s favorite sport. Joe Fleming is a prize fighter and, on the eve of his wedding, his fiancÃ(c)e agrees to watch his last ever fight. The Scarlet Plague, first published in 1912, tells of a disease that wipes out most of the world s population in 2012. The story is set 60 years later as one of the survivors attempts to pass on a lifetime of wisdom and experience to his grandsons. The Star Rover is a prison tale in which the main character endures torture sessions by entering a trance-like state, when he walks among the stars and experiences past lives.

Jack London. the Paths Men Take

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ISBN 13 : 9788869656392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Jack London. the Paths Men Take written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts Jack London photographer beautifully juxtaposing his worldwide famous literature with his incredible photographs.

Jack London

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Publisher : London : Pluto Press ; [New York : available from Urizen Books]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jack London written by Robert Barltrop and published by London : Pluto Press ; [New York : available from Urizen Books]. This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Scream

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520939349
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (393 download)

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Book Synopsis American Scream by : Jonah Raskin

Download or read book American Scream written by Jonah Raskin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a cultural weapon and a call to arms, Howl touched a raw nerve in Cold War America and has been controversial from the day it was first read aloud nearly fifty years ago. This first full critical and historical study of Howl brilliantly elucidates the nexus of politics and literature in which it was written and gives striking new portraits of Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs. Drawing from newly released psychiatric reports on Ginsberg, from interviews with his psychiatrist, Dr. Philip Hicks, and from the poet's journals, American Scream shows how Howl brought Ginsberg and the world out of the closet of a repressive society. It also gives the first full accounting of the literary figures—Eliot, Rimbaud, and Whitman—who influenced Howl, definitively placing it in the tradition of twentieth-century American poetry for the first time. As he follows the genesis and the evolution of Howl, Jonah Raskin constructs a vivid picture of a poet and an era. He illuminates the development of Beat poetry in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s--focusing on historic occasions such as the first reading of Howl at Six Gallery in San Francisco in 1955 and the obscenity trial over the poem's publication. He looks closely at Ginsberg's life, including his relationships with his parents, friends, and mentors, while he was writing the poem and uses this material to illuminate the themes of madness, nakedness, and secrecy that pervade Howl. A captivating look at the cultural climate of the Cold War and at a great American poet, American Scream finally tells the full story of Howl—a rousing manifesto for a generation and a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Curious Fragments

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Publisher : Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Curious Fragments written by Jack London and published by Port Washington, N.Y. : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: