The Works of Jack London, Vol. 16 (of 17): The Turtles of Tasman; The Valley of the Moon; War of the Classes - Couverture rigide

London, Jack

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1662721234 ISBN 13 : 9781662721236

Editeur : Moon Classics, 2020

Synopsis

The novel The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for its scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Valley of the Moon.


Beginnings
The book begins with Billy as a Teamster and Saxon working in a laundry. Billy has also boxed professionally with some success, but decided there was no future in it. He was partiarly upset by one bout in which he was fighting a friend and they had to continue fighting and making a good show of it after his friend injured a hand.


Billy and Saxon's early married life is disrupted by a major wave of strikes. Billy is involved in violent attacks on strikebreakers, and goes to jail. Saxon loses her baby in the backwash of the violence. She hears socialist arguments but does not definitively accept them, later meeting an old woman with an individualist w on relationships, describing how she successfully attached herself to a series of rich men. She also meets a lad called Jack who has built his own boat and seems to be based on Jack London himself as a teenager.


Rural Quest
When Billy is released from jail, Saxon insists that they leave the city and try to find their own farm, though they discover that the government no longer gives out land freely. They pass through an area dominated by the Portuguese, who are described to have arrived very poor and prospered by using the land more intensively than earlier European settlers, whom they displaced. A few days of their journey are spent with a middle-class woman who grows flowers and vegetables and has a flourishing business selling high-quality products to the wealthy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Moon Classics
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1662721234
• ISBN 13: 9781662721236
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 758
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible