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The Letters of Jack London - Vol. 1: 1896-1905; Vol. 2: 1906-1912; Vol. 3: 1913-1916, Deluxe set, in slip case (Hardcover, De Luxe edition)
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The Letters of Jack London - Vol. 1: 1896-1905; Vol. 2: 1906-1912; Vol. 3: 1913-1916, Deluxe set, in slip case (Hardcover, De Luxe edition)
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Jack London has long been recognized as one of the most colorful
figures in American literature. From his birth in San Francisco in
1876 until his death in 1916, he lived a life rich with experiences
and emotional intensity. Factory worker at 14; able-bodied seaman
at 17; hobo and convict at 18; "Boy Socialist" of Oakland at 19;
Klondike argonaut at 21; the "American Kipling" at 24; renowned
author, social crusader, journalist, and war correspondent at 28;
world traveler and adventurer at 31; prize-winning stockbreeder and
scienfitic farmer at 35; self-made millionaire by the time of his
death at 40: the facts became a legend in London's own lifetime.
London dominated the literary marketplace during the first decade
of the twentieth century; scarcely a month passed without his
writing appearing in the nation's leading magazines. In less than
20 years, he produced some 500 nonfiction pieces, 200 short
stories, and 19 novels (over 50 books in all), on such varied
subjects as agronomy, alcoholism, astral projection, big business,
ecology, economics, gold-hunting, penal reform, political
corruption, prizefighting, seafaring, socialism, war, and wildlife.
Of those books, at least three (The Call of the Wild, White Fang,
and The Sea-Wolf) have become world classics. London is America's
most widely translated author (into more than 80 langauges), and
although his works have been neglected until recently by academic
critics, he is finally winning recognition as a major figure in
American literary history. Comprising 1,557 carefully annotated
letters, this three-volume works is the first full-scale,
comprehensive collection of London's correspondence, more than
doubling the number of his letters previously in print. It
illuminates nearly every facet of london's complex genius and
meteoric career, from the early years of his literary
apprenticeship, through his rise to success and fame, and, finally
to the legal entanglements and failing health of his last years.
The image that emerges from London's letters is of an
unpretentious, often sensitive human being, extraordinarily open
and sometimes brutally candid. He was capable of writing deeply
moving, poetic love letters, but he was also capable, when writing
to or about those he considered enemies, of a dark bitterness and
vicious invective. Like much ofhis published work, many of his
letters are simply good reading, written with his characteristic
verve and blunt wit. This edition is lavishly illustrated,
including 112 photoraphs, most of them from the London family
albums and many published for the first time, facsimiles of letters
and autograph inscriptions in books, cartoons and drawings, and
three maps.
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