South Sea Tales
$43.75
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2002
Summary
Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author’s own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitz asserts in his Introduction, “When London’s …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375759291 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375759298 |
| Author: | Jack London, Tony Horwitz, Christopher Gair |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 2002nd |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2002 |
| Weight: | 314g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 134mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been … the excellence of his short stories has been almost forgotten.”-George Orwell
“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been … the excellence of his short stories has been almost forgotten.”—George Orwell
About The Author
Jack London
Christopher Gair is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a contributor to the Jack London Journal and other publications. He lives in Cambridge, England.
Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Confederates in the Attic, among other books. He lives in Virginia.
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