Jack (French: Jack : mœurs contemporaines, lit. 'Jack: Contemporary Manners') is a novel by the French writer Alphonse Daudet, published by Édouard Dentu in two volumes in 1876. It was published in English translation by Mary Neal Sherwood in 1877.
| Author | Alphonse Daudet |
|---|---|
| Translator | Mary Neal Sherwood |
| Language | French |
Publication date | 1876 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1877 |
| Pages | 762 |
It is about the Frenchman Jack, who is followed through his youth with a single mother and unknown father, as a literary student under a poor professor who starts an abusive relationship with Jack's mother, as an ironworker, as a stoker on a trans-Atlantic steamship, and as a medical student in Paris, as he struggles with family, love and friendship. Charles Dudley Warner wrote that the novel is characterised by "a passionate sympathy".[1]
It is not to be confused with My Brother Jack: Or the Story of What-D'Ye-Call'em, which is an 1877 English translation of Daudet's book Le Petit Chose.[2]
Jack was adapted into the 1913 French film Jack, the 1925 French film Jack, the 1949 Argentine film Las Aventuras de Jack and the 1975 French 13-part television series Jack.[3][4][5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Warner, Charles (2008) [1896]. A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern. Vol. 44. p. 316. ISBN 978-1-60520-253-2.
- ^ Whitney, James Lyman (1884). A Modern Proteus: A List of Books Published Under More than One Title. New York City: F. Leypoldt. p. 26.
- ^ Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. p. 106.
- ^ Manrupe, Raúl; Portela, María Alejandra (2001). Un diccionario de films argentinos (1930-1995) (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Editorial Corregidor. p. 42. ISBN 950-05-0896-6.
- ^ "Jack (d'Alphonse Daudet)". Madelen (in French). Institut national de l'audiovisuel. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
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