Jack London: Novels & Social Writings, LOA, HC, 1982 2nd Printing. Like New

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Condition
Like New: A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is ...
Type
Novel
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
ISBN
9780940450066
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0940450062
ISBN-13
9780940450066
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1027505

Product Key Features

Book Title
Jack London: Novels and Social Writings (LOA #7) : The People of the Abyss / the Road / the Iron Heel / Martin Eden / John Barleycorn / Selected Essays
Number of Pages
1192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1982
Topic
American / General, Literary, Political
Genre
Fiction, Literary Collections
Author
Jack. London
Book Series
Library of America Jack London Edition Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
26.3 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
82-006940
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Series Volume Number
2
Synopsis
By turns an impoverished laborer, a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent in Mexico, a declared socialist, and a writer of enormous popularity the world over, Jack London was the author of brilliant works that reflect his ideas about twentieth-century capitalist societies while dramatizing them through incidents of adventure, romance, and brutal violence. His prose, always brisk and vigorous, rises in The People of the Abyss to italicized horror over the human degradations he saw in the slums of East London. It also accommodates the dazzling oratory of the hero of The Iron Heel , an American revolutionary named Ernest Everhard, whose speeches have the accents of some of London's own political essays, like the piece (reprinted in this volume) entitled "Revolution." London's prophetic political vision was recalled by Leon Trotsky, who observed that when The Iron Heel first appeared, in 1907, not one of the revolutionary Marxists had yet fully imagined "the ominous perspective of the alliance between finance capitalism and labor aristocracy." Whether he is recollecting, in The Road , the exhilarating camaraderie of hobo gangs, or dramatizing, in Martin Eden , a life like his own, even to the foreshadowing of his own death at age forty, or confessing his struggles with alcoholism in the memoir John Barleycorn , London displays a genius for giving marginal life the aura of romance. Violence and brutality flash into life everywhere in his work, both as a condition of modern urban existence and as the inevitable reaction to it. Though he is outraged in The People of the Abyss by the condition of the poor in capitalist societies, London is even more appalled by their submission, and in the novel he wrote immediately afterward, The Call of the Wild (in the companion volume, Novels and Stories ), he constructed an animal fable about the necessary reversion to savagery. The Iron Heel , with its panoramic scenes of urban warfare in Chicago, envisions the United States taken over by fascists who perpetuate their regime for three hundred years. It constitutes London's warning to his fellow socialists that mere persuasion is insufficient to combat a system that ultimately relies on force. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
LC Classification Number
PR6023.E15

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