Jack London and His Daughters
Author : Joan London
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Joan London
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Jack London
Publisher : Soto-verlag
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3962174818
A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer. The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his fiction. Her name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman, though her inspiration has also been said to include London's friend Anna Strunsky. Modern commentators have criticized the novel for its approval of the main character's view that Anglo-Saxons are racially superior. The novel was commissioned by publisher S. S. McClure, who provided London a $125 a month stipend to write it.
Author : Joan London
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Authors, American
ISBN :
"Born under a cloud, Jack London in his early twenties was tramp, sailor, follower of Kelly's Industrial Army, oyster pirate, member of the coast patrol, gold-seeker in Alaska, socialist agitator. This was a prelude to a career as one of the greatest writer's of his time. But for all his adventures, London was far more than a romantic vagabond. His turbulent spirit was in constant inner conflict between the positive realist in him, the quality that led him to write pot-boilers, and the streak of pure idealism, which led him to seek a better world for all mankind. Merely as a story of action and adventure, this book makes magnificent reading. As a study of a strange and totured personality, written with amazing detachment and deep understanding, this biography is one of the really important books of the year. For it is not only that very rare achievement, a biography which gives the reader an intimate understanding of the mind and character of a man of genius, it is also a clear picture of the times which were the crucible of his career."--Book jacket, 1939 ed.
Author : Clarice Stasz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2013-09-04
Category :
ISBN : 9781625340658
The story of the women in the life of an American icon
Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781433089794
Author : Earle Labor
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2013-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1466863161
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 : James L. Haley
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 046502503X
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 : Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1222378027
A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.
Author : Caroline Crawford
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,30 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781015942479
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Author : Jack London
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :