Jack London : a life

著者

• Kershaw, Alex

書誌事項

Jack London : a life

Alex Kershaw

Flamingo, 1998, c1997

注記

Originally published: London : HarperCollins, 1997

Bibliography: p. [325]-326

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A full-blooded, pacy biography of one of the most charismatic writers of the century, whose life and work were to inspire Hemingway, Steinbeck, Kerouac and Mailer. 'We cannot help but read on': TLS. 'The energy, dynamism and sheer bursting life-force of Jack London bowls you over': Scotsman. Jack London's life story (1876-1916) is as dramatic as any of the fiction he wrote. Born illegitimate in San Francisco, he was (in his teens) an oyster pirate, seal-hunter, hobo, Klondike goldminer - and spectacular drinker. On publication of The Call of the Wild in 1903, he became the most highly publicised writer in the world. Subsequent books, including Martin Eden, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, John Barleycorn, The Sea Wolf, continue in print as world classics in many languages. Apart from writing 50 books, he lectured for the Socialist Party in America; was a war correspondent in Korea and Mexico; introduced surfing to the West Coast; sailed the seven seas in his yacht, the Snark...

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA45102299
• ISBN:
  • 0006548482
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xxvii, 335 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 20 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 813.52
• 件名:
  • BLSH : London, Jack, 1876-1916
  • LCSH : Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography