You can listen online to free English audiobook “John Barleycorn” by Jack London on our website. It is a touching story of a young, sensitive man, who loses his battle against spirits. The book tells about Londons own struggles and problems with alcohol and alcoholism. London describes the effects of alcohol along both optimistic and pessimistic lines, insisting at some points that it helped him in his developmental process towards becoming a man as he understood the idea and a writer and at other points that it limited in developing him in a healthy way. John Barleycorn is a deeply personal novel by Jack London.
This book is about the social facilitation of alcohol but is also a cautionary tale about the addictive powers of alcohol and its deleterious effects on health. First published serially in the Saturday Evening Post, MarchMay 1913 reprinted from John Barleycorn: Alcoholic Memoirs (New York: Century, 1913). Key stages are his late teen years when he earned money as a sailor and later in life when he was a wealthy, successful writer. London discusses various life experiences he has had with alcohol, and at widely different stages in his life. The novel's themes include masculinity and male friendship.
Long neglected by London partisans and used against him by critics who would see him as a self-confessed drunk, John Barleycorn deserves to be celebrated for what it is: a classic of American autobiography. In John Barleycorn, he records his early hardships in Oakland, his experiences as an oyster pirate, deep-sea sealer, hobo, Yukon goldminer, student, drop-out, and - ultimately - best-selling author. London's life was tragically short but packed with episode and adventure. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works depict elemental struggles for survival. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. A complete list of Jack London books, by date of publication, follows: 1900 The Son of the Wolf. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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