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Apr 01, 1986 | ISBN 9780553213355 Buy *This format is not eligible to earn points towards the Reader Rewards program
Feb 27, 2007 | ISBN 9780553903478 Buy
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Apr 01, 1986 | ISBN 9780553213355
Feb 27, 2007 | ISBN 9780553903478
To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack London’s short stories available in paperback. This superb volume brings together twenty-five of London’s finest, including a dozen of his great Klondike stories, vivid tales of the Far North were rugged individuals, such as the Malemute Kid face the violence of man and nature during the Gold Rush Days. Also included are short masterpieces from his later writing, plus six stories unavailable in any other paperback edition. Here, along with London’s famous wilderness adventures and fireband desperadoes, are portraits of the working man, the immigrant, and the exotic outcast: characters representing the entire span of the author’s prolific imaginative career, in tales that have been acclaimed throughout the world as some of the most thrilling short stories ever written.
Jack London—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time… More about Jack London
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