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Há 1 dia · London's fiction features several suicides. In his autobiographical memoir John Barleycorn, he claims, as a youth, to have drunkenly stumbled overboard into the San Francisco Bay, "some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me."
Há 5 dias · But the Great White Hope is destined to be lost, and the celebrated writer chooses death. 2 Close Disillusioned by “the white glare of life,” the glory of the bourgeois life that his fame promised him, Martin Eden dives into the Pacific from a Tahiti-bound steamer (479).
Há 4 dias · Jack London’s alcoholic memoir, “ John Barleycorn ”: a deep dive into the notorious workingmen’s saloons of the industrial era, as well as one person’s reckoning with alcoholism.
7 de set. de 2024 · John Barleycorn is the personification of barley, and the song describes the process used to plant, harvest and brew the barley for beer. It was recorded in many versions by lots of musicians. Cecil Sharp collected John Barleycorn on 31 August 1909 from ‘Shepherd’ Hayden of Bampton, Oxfordshire [VWML CJS2/9/2124] .
7 de set. de 2024 · The New Scorpion Band sang Hey! John Barleycorn in 2008 on their CD Master Marenghi’s Music Machine. They noted: In the 1950’s the BBC sent out Peter Kennedy, Séamus Ennis and other collectors to record traditional singers and musicians all over the British Isles and Ireland.
Há 1 dia · Years after John McGahern became the center of a national censorship debate, his novel “The Pornographer” cast an impassive eye on death, sex, and patriarchal repression.
Há 6 dias · Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!
