John Barleycorn

Jack London digresses into tales of both exuberance and solemnity as he examines the effect alcohol has held over his life. John Barleycorn is an autobiographical novel written by the prolific author Jack London. Including stories of his time as a sailor as well as a successful author, London discusses his experiences with alcohol during different stages of his life.

About the author

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

London was part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd", in San Francisco, and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Product details

• Authors: Jack London
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2021
• EAN: 9781513270180
• ISBN: 978-1-5132-7018-0
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 194 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Mint Editions; Mint Editions—In Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives; Mint Editions (In Their Own Words: Biographical and Autobiographical Narratives)
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Friendship, Memoirs, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary