The radical Jack London : writings on war and revolution
Jack London, Jonah Raskin (Editor, Writer of introduction, Writer of added commentary)
From the Publisher:" "Big things are happening secretly all around," says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel The Iron Heel, excerpted in this timely anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising literary range, The Radical Jack London establishes the iconic American author as both a product of his own era and a significant voice for ours. The book features works by London that have been unavailable for decades. In his insightful introduction, editor Jonah Raskin lays out the social, economic, and political contexts for London's polemical writings and shows London to be America's leading revolutionary writer at the turn of the twentieth century
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2008
Action and adventure fiction
xi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520255456, 9780520255463, 0520255453, 0520255461
141188021
List of illustrations
Introduction: Jack London: the Orphan at the abyss
Part 1: Boy Socialist, 1895-1899
Pessimism, optimism and patriotism
What socialism is
Voters' voice
Socialistic views
Road
Question of the maximum
Part 2: Comrade White Man, 1900-1905
Economics of the Klondike
Incarnation of push and go
Salt of the Earth
People of the Abyss, chapter 1: Descent
How I became a socialist
What shall be done with this boy?
Japanese officers consider everything a military secret
Revolution
Part 3: Apostate Revolutionary, 1906-1912
Apostate
Something rotten in Idaho: the tale of the conspiracy against Moyer, Pettibone and Haywood
Pen
Iron heel, chapter 23
Martin Eden, chapter 46
If Japan wakens China
Burning daylight, part II, chapter 8
War
Introduction to Alexander Berkman's Prison memoirs of an anarchist
Part 4: Cosmic Voyager, 1913-1916
John Barleycorn: Alcoholic memoirs, chapter 36
Star rover, chapter 22
Letter of resignation from the socialist party
Of man of the future
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
For classroom discussion
Index