- Description
- xviii, 461 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The first authorized biography of a great American novelist"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-434) and index.
- Contents
- Mothers and fathers -- Childhood's end -- The apostate -- A boy among men -- The dream as nightmare -- The open road -- A man among boys -- Higher education -- The golden dream -- Breakthrough : "Overland" and "The black cat" -- Best in class : "The Atlantic" -- Marriage and success -- In key with the world -- Anna and the "abyss" -- the wonderful year -- The wages of war -- The long sickness -- The valley of the moon -- Catastrophe -- Paradise lost -- Paradise momentarily regained -- Inferno -- The agrarian dream and loss of joy -- Four horses for a chicken thief -- Unlucky thirteen -- New York, Mexico, and home again -- A sea-change -- Silver speech, golden silence.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5
- ISBN
- 9780374178482 (hardback)
- 0374178488 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012050948
- OCLC
- 827256452
- Author
Labor, Earle, 1928-2022.
- Title
Jack London : an American life / Earle Labor.
- Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2013]
- Copyright Date
©2013
- Edition
First edition.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-434) and index.
- Research Call Number
JFE 14-5