Brandt Kenneth K. Brandt

Jack London (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Jack London (1876-1916) lived a life of excess by conventional standards. Daring, outspoken, politically radical, amazingly imaginative, and emotionally complicated, the author of literary classics such as The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf emerges in Kenneth K. Brandt's new biography as a vital and flawed embodiment of conflicting yearnings. London's exuberant energies propelled him out of the working class to become a world-famous writer by the age of twenty-seven-after stints as a child laborer, an oyster pirate, a Pacific seaman, and a convict. He wrote extensively about his travels to Japan, the Yukon, the slums of London's East End, Korea, Hawaii, and the South Seas. Swiftly paced, intellectually engaging, and richly dramatic, London's writings-bolstered by their wildly clashing philosophical viewpoints derived from thinkers like Nietzsche, Marx, and Darwin-continue to engross readers with their depictions of primal urges, raw sensations, and reformist politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Reaktion Books
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789143881
• Artikelnr.: 63045567

Autorenporträt

Kenneth K. Brandt is professor of English at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is the author of Jack London.

Rezensionen

In bold, declarative sentences, Ken Brandt states the facts of Jack London's life by tying them together in a thrilling and economical narrative. It should be the first biography anyone consults.', Jay Williams, author of the three-volume 'Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London' (2014) and general editor of 'The Complete Works of Jack London' (forthcoming)