John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs - Hardcover

London, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0837101506 ISBN 13: 9780837101507

Publisher: Greenwood Press,London

Synopsis

It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California. Because of the warmth of the day I had had several drinks before casting my ballot, and divers drinks after casting it. Then I had ridden up through the vine-clad hills and rolling pastures of the ranch, and arrived at the farmhouse in time for another drink and supper. "How did you vote on the suffrage amendment?" Charmian asked. "I voted for it." She uttered an exclamation of surprise. For, be it known, in my younger days, despite my ardent democracy, I had been opposed to woman suffrage. In my later and more tolerant years I had been unenthusiastic in my acceptance of it as an inevitable social phenomenon. "Now just why did you vote for it?" Charmian asked.

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Review:

"Assuredly one of the most useful, as well as one of the most entertaining books ever penned by a man."
--Upton Sinclair

-Assuredly one of the most useful, as well as one of the most entertaining books ever penned by a man.-
--Upton Sinclair

About the Author:

John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. --Wikipedia

About this edition

• Publisher: Greenwood Press,London
• ISBN 10: 0837101506
• ISBN 13: 9780837101507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 343