John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs
of Jack London, John Sutherland (Editor)
Description
First published in 1913, John Barleycorn is the first intelligent literary treatise on alcohol in American literature. London offers acute generalizations on Barleycorn together with a close narrative of his own drinking career, which was heroic in scale. It is, however, as an exercise in autobiography that his book principally attracts the modern reader. London's life was tragically short but packed with episode and adventure. In John Barleycorn he records his early hardships in Oakland, his experiences as oyster pirate, deep-sea sealer, hobo, Yukon goldminer, student, drop-out, and - ultimately - best-selling author. Long neglected by London partisans (who wish he had never written it) and used against him by critics who would see him as a self-confessed drunk, John Barleycorn deserves to be celebrated for what it is: a classic of American autobiography.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288 pages
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication Date November 19th 1998
- First Publication 10/30/13
- Language English
- ISBN 9780192837172
- Edition Not informed
- Category Other
- Scenario ['Oakland, California (United States)', 'California (United States)', 'United States of America']
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