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Jack London : an American life / Earle Labor.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3523.O46 Z6825 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Labor, Earle, 1928-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- London, Jack, 1876-1916.
- London, Jack.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 461 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Summary:
- "The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Burt fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374178482 ;
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