Synopsis

The Summer of Jack London

$10.99

Andrew J. Fenady

Published by Dramatic Publishing

Large Mixed Cast
Strong, handsome, aspiring writer, young Jack London debarks from a hell-ship, North Star, commanded by vicious Captain Diequest, with a diary about the murderous voyage

On dry land Diequest taunts London into a primitive battle and loses

So begins London's most adventurous and romantic summer

His family destitute, Jack fights a bully to get backbreaking work shoveling coal

All day he works; at night he writes. London rescues a young dandy, Philip Bambridge, from muggers and falls in love with Bambridge's sister, beautiful, delicate Felicity - and she with him

But all forces conspire against them. London finishes the novel exposing Diequest, but Diequest plots to shanghai him

In a rollicking dockside fight and harrowing escape the only copy of the novel is destroyed

Gold strike in Alaska!

Jack London must decide between his love of Felicity and his love of adventure - Alaska - writing - the call of the wild

Jack London (1876-1916) was a self-mad man, a dashing, romantic, adventurer and world traveler who lived "bigger than life"

Large variable cast

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