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Bezig met laden... Jack London on the Road: The Tramp Diary and Other Hobo Writingsdoor Jack London
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A collection of essays from Jack London’s early years, focusing on tramping and being a hobo, which he had experienced firsthand. The collection is pretty hit and miss, with the worst being the very raw and hard to follow ‘Tramp Diary’ London kept when he tramped across America in 1894 at age 18 to join a march on Washington DC. He had already been working throughout his teens in some very difficult jobs, and after the economic Panic of 1893, working men faced unemployment and difficult times. Despite his confidence in his own abilities and his feeling of rugged individualism, he threw his lot in with the working man, and this experience was truly formative for him. He became a socialist before the label had been branded with a negative stigma by the wealthy, corrupt people in power, and his writings that lay out the case for this, in particular ‘What Life Means to Me’ from 1906 are fantastic. His harrowing descriptions of hitching rides on trains, including to the rods beneath the cars in ‘Rods and Gunnels’ from 1902, were also very interesting. Don’t confuse the essay titled ‘The Road’ that’s included here with his 1907 book though. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
As Jack joined Kelly's Industrial Army in 1894 starting in Oakland, CA and headed for Washington, DC; he wrote of his travels while on the road. He recorded his experiences and thinking. America was changing dramatically as it headed into the 20th Century. This collection includes the complete Tramp diary, as well as essays, short stories and a poem about his days as a hobo. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)818.5209Literature English (North America) Authors, American and American miscellany 20th Century 1900-1945 BiographyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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