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John Barleycorn : 'Alcoholic Memoirs' / Jack London ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John Sutherland. - Wydanie 3. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XLV, 237 stron ; 20 cm.

(Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press)

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London, Jack (1876-1916). Sutherland, John (1938-).

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First published in 1913, John Barleycorn is the first intelligent literary treatise on alcohol in American literature. London offers acute generalizations on Barleycorn together with a close narrative of his own drinking career, which was heroic in scale. It is, however, as an exercise in autobiography that his book principally attracts the modern reader. London's life was tragically short but packed with episode and adventure. In John Barleycorn he records his early hardships in Oakland, his experiences as oyster pirate, deep-sea sealer, hobo, Yukon goldminer, student, drop-out, and - ultimately - best-selling author. Long neglected by London partisans (who wish he had never written it) and used against him by critics who would see him as a self-confessed drunk, John Barleycorn deserves to be celebrated for what it is: a classic of American autobiography.

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The Way We Live Now / Anthony Trollope ; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by John Sutherland. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - XLVIII, 494 s. ; 20 cm.

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Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882). Sutherland, John (1938-).

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Oxford World's Classics / Oxford University Press

At first savagely reviewed, The Way We Live Now (1875) has since emerged as Trollope's masterpiece and the most admired of his works. When Trollope returned to England from the colonies in 1872 he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he sat down to write The Way We Live Now, his longest novel. Nothing escaped the satirist's whip: politics, finance, the aristocracy, the literary world, gambling, sex, and much else. In this world of bribes and vendettas, swindling and suicide, in which heiresses are won like gambling stakes, Trollope's characters embody all the vices: Lady Carbury, a 43-year-old coquette, 'false from head to foot'; her son Felix, with the 'instincts of a horse, not approaching the higher sympathies of a dog'; and Melmotte, the colossal figure who dominates the book, a 'horrid, big, rich scoundrel ... a bloated swindler ... a vile city ruffian'.

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