Wolf The Lives of Jack London
eAudio - 2010
Jack London was born a working-class, fatherless San Franciscan in 1876. In his youth, he was a boundlessly energetic adventurer on the bustling west coast—by and by playing the role of hobo, sailor, and oyster pirate. From his vantage point at the margins of Gilded Age America, he witnessed such iniquity and abuses that he became a life long socialist and advocate for reform. His adventures in the American wilderness and underworld informed his fiction, and his writing came to captivate the nation as it defined his era. Within his own short lifetime, London became the most popular, and bestselling, author of his generation. By adulthood he had matured into the iconic American author of such still-universally loved books as The Call of t...he Wild, White Fang, and Sea Wolf, but in spite of his success, he was at war with himself. The highest-paid writer in America, he was constantly broke. Famous as he was for conjuring the brutality of nature in story after story...
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Blackstone Publishing
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- English
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- Online Access
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- MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
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File Size | 363 GB |
Parts | 14 |
ISBN | 9781483059068 |
Release Date | 6/29/2010 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 362 GB |
ISBN | 9781483059068 |
Release Date | 5/25/2010 |