John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs by Jack London, John Sutherland

John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs

Jack London, John Sutherland

288 pages first pub 1913 (editions)

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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 i...

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