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Cruise of the Snark
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Jack London
Captivating tale of true adventures recounts, with wry good humor, the hardships of a two-year voyage aboard a diminutive and leaky craft. Enhanced with 119 original photographs.
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John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
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Jack London
An autobiographical memoir that deals with the destructive effects of alcohol and London's boyhood and youth spent on the Oakland waterfront.
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Before Adam
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A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant ...
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John Barleycorn
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An autobiographical memoir that deals with the destructive effects of alcohol and London's boyhood and youth spent on the Oakland waterfront.
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Jack London: A Life
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Alex Kershaw
Jack London's life was frequently more dramatic than any of the fiction he wrote. Born illegitimate in 1876 on the San Francisco waterfront, his writing life was relatively short but hugely prolific. Apart from writing 50 books, he lectured for the Socialist Party of America, gathered first-hand material in the London slums for "The People of the ...
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Jack London: A Biography
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Daniel Dyer
This gripping biography of the famed adventurer and author reveals that his real life was just as exciting as the lives of his rich characters. London worked as a seal hunter, oyster pirate, factory worker, and prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush when he started on his way to becoming the world-renowned author of such classics as "Call of the ...
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Jack London, REV. Ed.
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Earle Labor, Jeanne Campbell Reesman
The past two decades have seen an outpouring of new scholarship around the world on American writer Jack London (1876-1916), author of such eternal classics as The Call of the Wild (1903), now translated into over 80 languages; The Sea Wolf (1904); and White Fang (1905). Earle Labor and Jeanne Campbell Reesman significantly advance the rising tide ...
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Oakland, Jack London, and Me
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Eric Miles Williamson
Acclaimed novelist, editor, and critic Eric Miles Williamson, with the publication of his first book of nonfiction, establishes himself as one of the premier critics of his generation. There is no other book that resembles "Oakland, Jack London, and Me".The parallels between the lives of Jack London and Eric Miles Williamson are startling: Both ...
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Jack: A Biography of Jack London
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Andrew Sinclair
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Jack London: Sailor on Horseback
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Irving Stone
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The Road
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Jack London
In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. His adventure was an exaggerated version of the unemployed migrations made by millions of boys, men, and a few women during the original "great depression" of the 1890s. By taking to ...
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London's the Call of the Wild & White Fang
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Samuel J Umland
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. "CliffsNotes on Call of the Wild & White Fang" covers not one, but two of Jack London's best known adventures. Meet an amazing dog named Buck and his human friend John Thornton in "Call of the Wild," and ...
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Cup of Fury
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Upton Sinclair
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Jack London in Paradise
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Paul Malmont
The national bestselling author of "The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril" pens a mesmerizing and thrilling new novel about the legendary writer Jack London and the last year of his troubled life.
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American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London
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Clarice Stasz
In 1903, Jack London shocked the morals of his country when he left his wife and two young daughters for a spunky spinster five years his senior. A new breed of woman, Charmian Kitteridge was notorious for her activities that were unlike proper women of the day. Based on Charmian's journals, American Dreamers is a love story, and a fascinating ...
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Jack London and the Klondike; the genesis of an American writer
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Franklin Dickerson Walker
This book presents for the first time an accurate and detailed account of the young London's experiences in the famous gold rush that furnished the substance for his successful books. His exciting winter in the Yukon is re-created through quotations from his fiction, travel diaries, and the testimony of companions. Features a foreword by well ...
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Irving Stone's Jack London, His Life, Sailor on Horseback (a Biography), and Twenty-Eight Selected Jack London Stories
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Irving Stone
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Jack London: An American Original (Oxford Portraits)
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Rebecca Stefoff
One of the most beloved writers of all time, Jack London is best remembered for his tales of adventure, such as White Fang and The Call of the Wild. Jack London paints a well-rounded picture of London's short, intrepid life, his prolific writings, his unusually clear and direct portrayal of people of different races, and his struggles with writing ...
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Jack London and His Daughters
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Joan London
This account vividly recaptures the pain and yearning of Joan London for the father who left the family circle. A very different London story, it tells of growing family tensions and what it meant to live in the glow of a famous but absent father. Includes a selection of photographs Jack London kept for his daughter, and a preface by Bart Abbott, ...
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Jack London's Grand North
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Jack London, Philippe Lansac (Photographer)
Full-color photographs, period ephemera, and excerpts from London's stories are our traveling companions on this journey to the Klondike during the Gold Rush days. Along the way we meet the trappers, Indians, dog team drivers, missionaries, and prospectors that so fascinated and inspired this revered American writer.
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Jack London's the Sea Wolf: A Screenplay by Robert Rossen
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Robert Rossen, Tony Williams (Editor), Rocco Fumento (Editor)
Rocco Fumento and Tony Williams present the final version of Robert Rossen's screenplay for Jack London's "The Sea Wolf". Released in 1941, this classic film was directed by Michael Curtiz and starred Edward G. Robinson as Wolf Larsen, John Garfield as George Leach, Ida Lupino as fugitive Ruth Webster, Alexander Knox as writer Humphrey Van Weyden, ...
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The ultimate Jack the Ripper sourcebook : an illustrated encyclopedia
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Stewart P. Evans, Keith Skinner
Public interest has never waned in the hunt for the identity of the serial killer known as Jack the Ripper. This volume has been written to help those interested in researching all the documentary evidence pertaining to the case at any level. Providing an overview of the crimes and the police investigation, the two editors have collated all the ...
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Sailor on Snowshoes: Tracking Jack London's Northern Trail
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Dick North
In 1897, a 21-year-old unemployed Californian named Jack London borrowed funds so he could make his fortune in the Klondike. His life prior to the gold rush had been a story of toil and lean days. He knew how to pitch a tent, start a fire with minimal effort and how to go without either a fire or a blanket if circumstances required. He had lived ...
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Rereading Jack London
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Professor Leonard Cassuto, Ph.D. (Editor), Jeanne C Reesman (Editor)
Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful figures in American literature. He is America's most widely translated author (into more than eighty languages), and although his works have been neglected until recently by academic critics in the United States, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in American ...
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Through the South Seas with Jack London (1913)
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Martin Johnson, Ralph D Harrison (Introduction by)
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