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Best Short Stories of Jack London Mass market paperbound - 1986

by Jack London


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"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..." ...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ...The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about." Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand -- "while frightfully primitive" -- was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The tales in this volume have been thrilling readers for nearly half a century.

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DAY HAD BROKEN cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland.

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"Raw and Raked, Wild and Free..."
...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold. ...The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about." Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand -- "while frightfully primitive" -- was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The tales in this volume have been thrilling readers for nearly half a century.

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  • Title Best Short Stories of Jack London
  • Author Jack London
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fawcett Books, New York
  • Date November 12, 1986
  • ISBN 9780449300534 / 0449300536
  • Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.95 x 4.27 x 0.53 in (17.65 x 10.85 x 1.35 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Short stories, Short stories, American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00000000
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Jack London (1876-1916) was born John Chaney in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1896 he was caught up in the gold rush to the Klondike River in northwest Canada, which became the inspiration for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). London is one of the most widely read writers in the world.
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