John Barleycorn by Jack London

John Barleycorn

Jack London

138 pages first pub 1913 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir funny slow-paced

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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, ...

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