An Autobiography of Jack London

✍ Scribed by London, Jack; Brennan, Stephan

• Book ID: 108081479
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781620873649

✦ Synopsis

Jack London has been a best-selling author for more than one hundred years. In his short life (1876–1916) he wrote twenty-five novels and dozens of short stories, plays, and essays. Today he is recognized as a forerunner of such literary giants as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Jack Kerouac. Author of a number of well-known and well-loved stories in our literature (includingWhite Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea Wolf), London also worked as a day laborer, Alaskan gold rusher, and seaman. He was also an adventurer, journalist, celebrity, polemicist, and drunk.

An Autobiography of Jack London is a revealing portrait of the man who was Jack London—in his own words—and is largely composed of excerpts from his memoirs: The Road, John Barleycorn, and The Cruise of the Snark. Rather than a mere biographical summary of a man's life, An Autobiography of Jack London aims to give the reader real insight into the character and personality of this...