Jack London An American Life

Author : Earle Labor,Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032187802

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Jack London by Earle Labor,Jeanne Campbell Reesman Pdf

Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high school students to university professors. The book suggests to the informed reader new ways of considering a writer's work. Each volume features: -- A critical, interpretive study and explication of the author's works -- A brief biography of the author -- An accessible chronology outlining the life, the work, and relevant historical context -- Aids for further study: complete notes and references, a selected annotated bibliography and an index -- A readable style presented in a manageable length

Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466851696

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Jack London by Alex Kershaw Pdf

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 : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820339702

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Jack London's Racial Lives by Jeanne Campbell Reesman Pdf

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 : Jack London
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620873649

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An Autobiography of Jack London by Jack London Pdf

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 : Jack London
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781387079469

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Love of Life & Other Stories by Jack London Pdf

Jack London was one of the first writers to earn a living in part from his writings in commercial fiction magazines. London's writings reflect the change in his political views. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Stories in this collection include LOVE OF LIFE, A DAY'S LODGING, THE WHITE MAN'S WAY, THE STORY OF KEESH, THE UNEXPECTED, BROWN WOLF, THE SUN-DOG TRAIL, NEGORE, and THE COWARD, LOVE OF LIFE (excerpt) ""This out of all will remain - They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost."" THEY limped painfully down the bank, and once the foremost of the two men staggered among the rough-strewn rocks. They were tired and weak, and their faces had the drawn expression of patience which comes of hardship long endured. They were heavily burdened with blanket packs which were strapped to their shoulders. Head- straps, passing across the forehead, helped support these packs...

Author : James L Haley
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465021673

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Wolf by James L Haley Pdf

Born a working-class, fatherless Californian in 1876, Jack London spent his youth as a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast; by adulthood he had matured into the iconic American author of such still universally loved books as The Call of the Wild and White Fang. In Wolf, award-winning biographer James L. Haley explores the forgotten Jack London: a hard-living globetrotter bristling with ideas whose passion for social justice roared until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Haley resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.

Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466863163

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Jack London by Earle Labor Pdf

A revelatory look at the life of the great American author—and how it shaped his most beloved works Jack London was born a working class, fatherless Californian in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling West Coast—an oyster pirate, a hobo, a sailor, and a prospector by turns. He spent his brief life rapidly accumulating the experiences that would inform his acclaimed bestselling books The Call of theWild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf. The bare outlines of his story suggest a classic rags-to-riches tale, but London the man was plagued by contradictions. He chronicled nature at its most savage, but wept helplessly at the deaths of his favorite animals. At his peak the highest paid writer in the United States, he was nevertheless forced to work under constant pressure for money. An irrepressibly optimistic crusader for social justice and a lover of humanity, he was also subject to spells of bitter invective, especially as his health declined. Branded by shortsighted critics as little more than a hack who produced a couple of memorable dog stories, he left behind a voluminous literary legacy, much of it ripe for rediscovery. In Jack London: An American Life, the noted Jack London scholar Earle Labor explores the brilliant and complicated novelist lost behind the myth—at once a hard-living globe-trotter and a man alive with ideas, whose passion for seeking new worlds to explore never waned until the day he died. Returning London to his proper place in the American pantheon, Labor resurrects a major American novelist in his full fire and glory.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0904526100

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The Star Rover by Jack London Pdf

'A magnificent literary accomplishment.' - Irving Stone Jack London's novel brings to life the horrors and inhumanities of prison life.

Author : Russ Kingman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106008751643

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A Pictorial Life of Jack London by Russ Kingman Pdf

Biography of Jack London. Includes account of the period London spent in the Yukon.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781421833583

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John Barleycorn by Jack London Pdf

It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California. Because of the warmth of the day I had had several drinks before casting my ballot, and divers drinks after casting it. Then I had ridden up through the vine-clad hills and rolling pastures of the ranch, and arrived at the farm-house in time for another drink and supper. "How did you vote on the suffrage amendment?" Charmian asked. "I voted for it." She uttered an exclamation of surprise. For, be it known, in my younger days, despite my ardent democracy, I had been opposed to woman suffrage. In my later and more tolerant years I had been unenthusiastic in my acceptance of it as an inevitable social phenomenon. "Now just why did you vote for it?" Charmian asked. I answered. I answered at length. I answered indignantly. The more I answered, the more indignant I became. (No; I was not drunk. The horse I had ridden was well named "The Outlaw." I'd like to see any drunken man ride her.) And yet-how shall I say?-I was lighted up, I was feeling "good," I was pleasantly jingled. "When the women get the ballot, they will vote for prohibition," I said. "It is the wives, and sisters, and mothers, and they only, who will drive the nails into the coffin of John Barleycorn--"

Author : Jack London
Publisher : The Creative Company
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1583415874

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To Build a Fire by Jack London Pdf

Describes the experiences of a newcomer to the Yukon when he attempts to hike through the snow to reach a mining claim.

Author : Jack London
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528787031

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Martin Eden by Jack London Pdf

First published in 1909, “Martin Eden” is a novel by American writer Jack London. The story revolves around a young lower-class autodidact named Martin Eden and her struggle to become a writer in the face of great adversity. John Griffith London (1876 – 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their writing. Other notable works by this author include: “The Cruise of the Dazzler” (1902), “The Kempton-Wace Letters” (1903), and “The Call of the Wild” (1903). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Author : Franklin Walker
Publisher : Huntington Library Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012212655

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Jack London and the Klondike by Franklin Walker Pdf

Biography, with particular attention to the time London spent in the Yukon, and critique of his Yukon writings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1960*
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:10796186

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Jack London by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeanne Campbell Reesman
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0816080844

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Critical Companion to Jack London by Jeanne Campbell Reesman Pdf

A literary criticism of author Jack London's works including some biographical information.