{"product_id":"jack-london-book-thomas-streissguth-9780822549871","title":"Jack London","description":"Jack London (1876-1916) lived a life of excess by conventional standards. Daring, outspoken, politically radical, amazingly imaginative, and emotionally complicated, the author of literary classics such as \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sea-Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e emerges in Kenneth K. Brandt's new biography as a vital and flawed embodiment of conflicting yearnings. London's exuberant energies propelled him out of the working class to become a world-famous writer by the age of twenty-seven--after stints as a child laborer, an oyster pirate, a Pacific seaman, and a convict. He wrote extensively about his travels to Japan, the Yukon, the slums of London's East End, Korea, Hawaii, and the South Seas. Swiftly paced, intellectually engaging, and richly dramatic, London's writings--bolstered by their wildly clashing philosophical viewpoints derived from thinkers like Nietzsche, Marx, and Darwin--continue to engross readers with their depictions of primal urges, raw sensations, and reformist politics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50369045332241,"sku":"CIN0822549875G","price":4.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822549875.jpg?v=1750786036","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/jack-london-book-thomas-streissguth-9780822549871","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}