Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member...
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Aug 19, 2009
R.
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Had this with me on a month of trekking in Alaska. Great stories of pain, deception, and endurance. I particularly enjoyed reading the socialist non-fiction included in the collection and some of London's own letters that delved into his own past - I had never known much about his socio-economic origins. His writing resonates even more knowing even the little glimpse he provides.
Apr 10, 2010
Scott
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Portable readers are hard to rate by the simple fact that they include such broad ranges of a writer's or genre's works. This was a decent collection of his writings. In fact, it got more stars than I thought it would (I'm not a London fan), because it had some interesting things that don't normally make it into London anthologies.
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