LEADER 03587nam 22006735 450 001 9910777799403321 005 20230829003405.0 010 $a1-282-27274-8 010 $a9786613815149 010 $a0-8135-4012-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813540122 035 $a(CKB)1000000000468121 035 $a(EBL)982100 035 $a(OCoLC)802695115 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000238822 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199896 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000238822 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10234517 035 $a(PQKB)11462353 035 $a(DE-B1597)530343 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813540122 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878628 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC982100 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000468121 100 $a20200623h20062006 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Road /$fJack London; Todd DePastino 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2006] 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 0 $aSubterranean Lives 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-3806-8 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tSelected Bibliography --$tA Note on the Text --$tThe Road --$tExplanatory Notes --$tAbout the Editor 330 $aIn 1894, an eighteen-year-old Jack London quit his job shoveling coal, hopped a freight train, and left California on the first leg of a ten thousand-mile odyssey. His adventure was an exaggerated version of the unemployed migrations made by millions of boys, men, and a few women during the original "great depression of the 1890's. By taking to the road, young wayfarers like London forged a vast hobo subculture that was both a product of the new urban industrial order and a challenge to it. As London's experience suggests, this hobo world was born of equal parts desperation and fascination. "I went on 'The Road,'" he writes, "because I couldn't keep away from it . . . Because I was so made that I couldn't work all my life on 'one same shift'; because-well, just because it was easier to than not to." The best stories that London told about his hoboing days can be found in The Road, a collection of nine essays with accompanying illustrations, most of which originally appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1907 and 1908. His virile persona spoke to white middle-class readers who vicariously escaped their desk-bound lives and followed London down the hobo trail. The zest and humor of his tales, as Todd DePastino explains in his lucid introduction, often obscure their depth and complexity. The Road is as much a commentary on London's disillusionment with wealth, celebrity, and the literary marketplace as it is a picaresque memoir of his youth. 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPrisoners$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aTramps$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aRailroad travel$zUnited States 606 $aVagrancy 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aPrisoners 615 0$aTramps 615 0$aRailroad travel 615 0$aVagrancy 676 $a813/.52 676 $aB 700 $aLondon$b Jack$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0193071 702 $aDePastino$b Todd$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777799403321 996 $aRoad$925853 997 $aUNINA