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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Pas mal. Cela étant, Jack London passe parfois pour un salaud. Gênant … ( ) Sagan The Road eftir Jack London var gefin út á íslensku undir heitinu Flækingar og hana er hægt að hlusta á sem hljóðbók í lestri Sigurðar Arendts Jónssonar í útgáfu Hlusta.is. Í sögunni lýsir ævintýramaðurinn London lífi sínu sem flakkari um Bandaríkin þegar hann var u.þ.b. 18 ára gamall á síðasta áratuginum fyrir aldamótin 1900. Bókin kom út 1907 og í henni lýsir hann þegar hann stalst sem laumufarþegi á lestum þrátt fyrir harða eftirgrennslan lestarvarða, sníkti mat, sagði sögur til að hafa í sig á og og margt fleira. Skemmtilega ferskar frásagnir og fjörugar en Jack London var einn af fyrstu höfundunum sem öðlaðist heimsfrægð og ríkidæmi fyrir skrif sín. A fascinating account of the life of a hobo in the time before automobiles, when riding the rails was adventure at its finest. Jack London earned his right to spin adventure tales by living through some of the most incredible wanderings a young person could have enjoyed, and he happily takes us along for the hobo ride. A great find. Learned alot about JL, the 1890's, and the way America used to be. An honest telling of his days being a 'profesh' hobo and by default about an America long gone buy. He lived during the times of reaction to the Robber Barons. Probably not too popular because JL was an obvious racist but most from that time were. He only lived to 40 but he squeezed a lot out of hos life for sure. London's tale of life on the road as a hobo in the 1890s isn't nearly as harrowing as similar tales from the 20th century, especially during the Depression. But it is quite interesting as it describes his initiation to the hobo life and some of the skills he developed. The book sidetracks into a few non-hobo passages, most of which also highlight the author's prowess. While he is certainly boasting of his cleverness throughout the book, he doesn't do so in an annoying way. We learn a lot about human nature here, and London, whom I have not widely read, is a very engaging, modern-sounding author. Recommended! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. His adventure was an exaggerated version of the unemployed migrations made by millions of boys, men, and a few women during the original "great depression of the 1890's. By taking to the road, young wayfarers like London forged a vast hobo subculture that was both a product of the new urban industrial order and a challenge to it. As London's experience suggests, this hobo world was born of equal parts desperation and fascination. "I went on 'The Road,'" he writes, "because I couldn't keep away from it . . . Because I was so made that I couldn't work all my life on 'one same shift'; because-well, just because it was easier to than not to." The best stories that London told about his hoboing days can be found in The Road, a collection of nine essays with accompanying illustrations, most of which originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1907 and 1908. His virile persona spoke to white middle-class readers who vicariously escaped their desk-bound lives and followed London down the hobo trail. The zest and humor of his tales, as Todd DePastino explains in his lucid introduction, often obscure their depth and complexity. The Road is as much a commentary on London's disillusionment with wealth, celebrity, and the literary marketplace as it is a picaresque memoir of his youth. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.52Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1900-1944Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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