Jack London

The Game (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1905, this is a riveting tale of a boxing match between twenty-year-old Jack Fleming and his thuggish rival John Ponta, as seen through the eyes of Jack's fiancé, Genevieve. Notable for its stark realism, this short novel single-handedly, as it were, elevated the subject of boxing to literary respectability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411443334
• Artikelnr.: 50390174

Autorenporträt

Jack London (1876-1916) was born in San Francisco, the illegitimate son of a music teacher whose lover spurned her after she refused an abortion. His writings dealt with his social activism and care for the worker. Largely self-educated, London became a sailor, a hobo, a gold miner, and a socialistall of which would find their way into his fiction.