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Jack London
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Createspace Independent Pub
Publication date
November 5, 2015
Pages
326
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781519122070
ISBN-10
1519122071
Dimensions
0.74 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$13.45
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Little Lady of the Big House (1915) is a novel by American writer Jack London. Biographer Clarice Stasz states that it is ânot autobiography,â but speaks of his âfrank borrowing from his life with Charmianâ and says it is âpsychologically valid as a mirror of events during winter . The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his âacorn songâ recalls Londonâs play, âThe Acorn Planters.â). His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman (in one scene, she rides a stallion into a âswimming tank,â emerging in âa white silken slip of a bathing suit that molded to her form like a marble-carven veiling of drapery.â) Paula, like Charmian, is subject to insomnia; and Paula, like Charmian, is unable to bear children. Based on a reading of Charmianâs diary, Stasz identifies the third vertex of the triangle, Evan Graham, with two real-life men named Laurie Smith and Allan Dunn. Even minor characters can be identified; Forrestâs servant Oh My resembles Londonâs valet Nakata. The long-bearded hobo philosopher Aaron Hancock resembles the real-lifelong-bearded hobo philosopher Frank Strawn-Hamilton, who was a long-term guest at the London ranch. Sculptor Haakan Frolich makes an appearance as âthe sculptor Froeligâ â and painter Xavier Martinez appears as the character âXavier Martinez!â London said of this novel: âIt is all sex from start to finish â in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength.â One reviewer disparaged the novelâs âerotomania.â
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