Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America

by Cecelia Tichi

Book Overview

Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469622661
• ISBN13: 9781469622668
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"