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Road

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Informationen zum Autor DePastino, Todd Klappentext In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. His adventure was an exaggerated version of the unemployed migrations made by millions of boys, men, and a few women during the original "great depression of the 1890s. By taking to the road, young wayfarers like London forged a vast hobo subculture that was both a product of the new urban industrial order and a challenge to it. The best stories that London told about his hoboing days can be found in The Road, a collection of nine essays with accompanying illustrations, most of which originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1907 and 1908. Zusammenfassung In 1894! an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal! hopped a freight train! and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. This book features several stories that London told about his hoboing days. It presents a collection of nine essays! with accompanying illustrations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Selected Bibliography A Note on the Text List of Illustrations Chapter 1: Confession Chapter 2: Holding Her Down Chapter 3: Pictures Chapter 4: "Pinched" Chapter 5: The Pen Chapter 6: Hoboes That Pass in the Night Chapter 7: Road-Kids and Gay-Cats Chapter 8: Two Thousand Stiffs Chapter 9: Bulls Explanatory Notes About the Editor

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Authors Jack London
Assisted by Todd DePastino (Editor)
Publisher Rutgers University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 03.05.2006
 
EAN 9780813538068
ISBN 978-0-8135-3806-8
No. of pages 224
Series Subterranean Lives Series
Subterranean Lives (Hardcover)
Subterranean Lives Series
Subterranean Lives
Subterranean Lives (Hardcover)
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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