Jack London :: a writer's fight for a better America /

"Jack London (1876 -1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the longstanding view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to world...

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1. Verfasser: Tichi, Cecelia, 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Ausgabe:First edition.
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Zusammenfassung:"Jack London (1876 -1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the longstanding view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to worldwide acclaim for stories, novels, and essays designed to hasten the social, economic, and political advance of America. In this major reinterpretation of London's career, Tichi examines how the beloved writer leveraged his written words as a force for the future"--
Beschreibung:"Published with the assistance of the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso
Beschreibung:1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781469625065
1469625067
9781469622675
146962267X

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