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Yours Truly, Jack London

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19881120
Author:Donald Pizer

THE LETTERS OF JACK LONDON

Edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz, III,

And I. Milo Shepard

Stanford University Press

Three volumes. $139.50

WHO IS the real Jack London? Is he the youthful oyster pirate, day laborer, hobo and Klondike gold-rusher who, self-taught and self-disciplined, translated these experiences and his personal code of honesty and strength into more than 50 books and world fame? Or is he the consummate role player who, having invented a saleable image and having mastered the art of its popularization, confused its shallow "philosophy" with truth and thereafter bullied ...

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