Description: The Road by Jack London Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is Londons account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary, which he described as a place of "unprintable horrors," after being "pinched" (arrested) for vagrancy. In addition, he recounts his time with Kellys Army, which he joined up with in Wyoming and remained with until its dissolution at the Mississippi River. Its funny and ugly and individualistic and crafty and bad and good and American and human. A series of interesting vignettes about the time Jack London spent as a train-jumping hobo in his youth, it is a fantastic look into a long-past time and a unique culture. Many of the stories are funny, such as how he would win food or elude the bulls. Some inspire social outrage, like when he was imprisoned. Facts and Trivia: The 1973 film Emperor of the North Pole, starring Lee Marvin, is loosely based upon The Road by Jack London. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Author Biography John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, 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 married Elizabeth "Bessie" Maddern on April 7, 1900, the same day The Son of the Wolf was published. Bess had been part of his circle of friends for a number of years. 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. In later life London indulged his wide-ranging interests by accumulating a personal library of 15,000 volumes. He referred to his books as "the tools of my trade." In 1905, London purchased a 1,000 acres ranch in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain, for $26,450. He wrote: "Next to my wife, the ranch is the dearest thing in the world to me." He desperately wanted the ranch to become a successful business enterprise. Writing, always a commercial enterprise with London, now became even more a means to an end: "I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate." After 1910, his literary works were mostly potboilers, written out of the need to provide operating income for the ranch. Details ISBN 1536941328 ISBN-13 9781536941326 Title The Road Author Jack London Format Paperback Year 2016 Pages 112 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform GE_Item_ID:128329417; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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Book Title: Road
Item Length: 9in.
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Author: Jack London
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Food, Lodging & Transportation / Rail Travel, Sociology / General, Adventurers & Explorers, Literary, American / General, Penology, Criminology
Publisher: CreateSpace
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Literary Criticism, Social Science
Item Weight: 7.9 Oz
Number of Pages: 112 Pages
