John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (529 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003VFTKZ2 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 580 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A Uniquely Candid Autobiography" according to Lindiane. Following the worst of London's alcoholic periods he wrote this autobiography beginning with his first taste of alcohol, his first experience at being drunk,and his first hangover-all at the age of five. London went on to "earn his manhood spurs" through hard drinking at t. "London's unsparing look at the lure (and danger) of alcohol" according to M. Bromberg. The novelist and adventurer Jack London was an alcoholic at an early age. This colorful memoir -- one of the first in America to treat the issue of alcohol abuse -- was written to encourage the prohibition efforts of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. London does cond. the watchman said Shame on Amazon. for continuing to sell these wretched "General Books LLC" editions. For those who don't know, these are optically scanned uncorrected (in other words, riddled with errors, sometimes to the point of unreadability) OCR editions of books that are available online at no cost i
He describes his struggle with an addiction to alcohol.. Jack London wrote this autobiography through the eyes of John Barleycorn, a reference to alcohol