Jack London: The Man, the Writer, the Rebel
by Robert Barltrop
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Anyone undertaking a biography of Jack London assumes a task that appears larger than life. More like a legend than a man and the image of the adventure stories that in part made him famous, London has an appeal that few stories can match. Dealing with London's life in chronological order, Robert Barltrop manages a reasonably rounded whole, starting with a poor and rough beginning, wild adventures, his yearnings to write and his urge to consume literature, his early disappointments, and the show more almost fairy-tale rise to popular prominence. His political development until this stage is also carefully documented, and we see the conversion of the protester into an allegedly Socialist propagandist. The writer's summary of London life is: "Its various aspects are of a personality whose strengths and weaknesses alike were invited to over-expression by the hurly-burly of the time. It is possible to regard them all and still feel affection as for a problematic friend." show lessTags
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 818.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 20th Century
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- PS3523 .O46 .Z6116 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1900-1960
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