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Jack London's two most acclaimed nonfiction books are together in one volume. <p>During his relatively brief literary career, Jack London published over one hundred works of prose and drama and inspired scores of biographies claiming to know the truth about Jack London, whatever that truth may be. The truth is, there is no better authority on London than Jack London himself.</p><p>Part of London's popularity is due to our vision of him as that rare man who did what he wanted and lived as he chose. Realistic or not, we see in London a man who lived without fear while searching for Truth. These two books, more than any others, clarify our understanding of who Jack London really was.</p><p>The Road was first published in 1907, preceding On the Road by half a century and making Kerouac's journeys seem juvenile by comparison. Begun in 1892, The Road chronicles London's years as a penniless vagabond. Already a hardened man-child at sixteen, London set out on his trek with little more than a few coins and a notebook in his pocket. The book shows us London's brief stint in Kelly's Army and his month in the Erie County Penitentiary after an arrest for vagrancy. We see the beatific joy of sl

Author

London, Jack, 1876-1916, author

Publisher

Tucson: Sabino Falls Publishing

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780985750121