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Jack London : A Writer's Fight for a Better America /

"Jack London (1876 -1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the longstanding view of London as merely a mass-market producer of potboilers. A onetime child laborer, London led a life of poverty in the Gilded Age before rising to world...

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Autor principal: Tichi, Cecelia, 1942- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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