California Writers: Jack London, John Steinbeck, the Tough Guys

by Stoddard Martin

Chapters 1. Introduction; 2. Jack I The Underman and the Cause, II Woman, Race and the Land, III 'The Little Lady' and the Tradition; 3. John I Radicalism, II Bourgeois Career/Proletarian Comedies, III Femme Fatale; 4. The Tough I Hammett and Puritanism, II The Zeitgeist and Cain, III Raymond Chandler; 5. The Sixties and After.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983