| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-434) and index. |
| Contents |
Mothers and fathers -- Childhood's end -- The apostate -- A boy among men -- The dream as nightmare -- The open road -- A man among boys -- Higher education -- The golden dream -- Breakthrough : Overland and The black cat -- Best in class : The Atlantic -- Marriage and success -- In key with the world -- Anna and the abyss -- The wonderful year -- The wages of war -- The long sickness -- The valley of the moon -- Catastrophe -- Paradise lost -- Paradise momentarily regained -- Inferno -- The agrarian dream and loss of joy -- Four horses for a chicken thief -- Unlucky thirteen -- New York, Mexico, and home again -- A sea-change -- Silver speech, golden silence. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
London, Jack, 1876-1916.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9780374178482 hardback $30.00 |
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0374178488 hardback |
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