Jack London: An American Life
Author | : Earle Labor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374178488 |
"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
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Author | : Earle Labor |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374178488 |
"The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
Author | : Alex Kershaw |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2013-08-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1466851694 |
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 | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2008-05-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0520255461 |
"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
Author | : Dirk Wales |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Dogs |
ISBN | : 9780963245939 |
This is a fictional tale of Jack, the dog who was a real-life friend to Jack London during the 1897 Yukon Gold Rush and the model for Buck in his 1903 book, Call of the wild. This story imagines what might have happened when Jack was left behind by Jack London, and what adventures he might have had.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Death row inmates |
ISBN | : |
"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 | : Ed Morrell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Outlaws |
ISBN | : |
A scarce book about the terrible experiences of the last survivor of the Evans-Sontag band of train robbers. The author helped Sontag escape jail and became a hunted man with him." The foreword by Arizona Governor George W.P. Hunt and the introduction by Dr. Raymond S. Ward, Montclair, New Jersey are quite revealing about the torture and sufferings of the author while imprisoned at San Quentin, California. Jack London held the author in high regard as he credited Morrell with helping him develop his masterpiece THE STAR ROVER--
Author | : Don MacGillivray |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0774858419 |
Alex MacLean was the inspiration for the title character in Jack London's bestselling novel The Sea-Wolf. Originally from Cape Breton, MacLean sailed to the Pacific side of North America when he was twenty-one and worked there for thirty-five years as a sailor and sealer. His achievements and escapades while in the Victoria fleet in the 1880s laid the foundation for his status as a folk hero. But this biography reveals more than the construction of a legend. Don MacGillivray opens a window onto the sealing dispute brought the United States and Britain to the brink of war, with Canadian sealing interests frequently enmeshed in espionage, scientific debate, diplomatic negotiations, and vexing questions of maritime and environmental law.