John Barleycorn by Jack London

John Barleycorn

Jack London

158 pages first pub 1913 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics memoir funny slow-paced

Description

Richly anecdotal and beautifully written, John Barleycorn stands as the earliest intelligent treatment of alcohol in American literature, and as an intensely moving document of one of America's finest writers.

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