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| The Best Short Stories of Jack London | 
| Author: Jack London
Publisher: Bt Bound
Category: Book
Buy Used: $25.53
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3864883
Media: Library Binding
Reading Level: Young Adult
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0808563343
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780808563341
ASIN: 0808563343
Publication Date: October 1999
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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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Some seminal tales from a master storyteller... May 8, 2008
For all their moods of isolation, Jack London crafted some soulful stories filled with a kind of humanity that is outside of conventional terms. All of these stories are worth delving into, often more than once even, but the opener 'To Build a Fire' packs a whallop to the gut that has never left me. The narrator's struggle to keep warm, originally one of pride and daring that slowly is reduced to one of futility says all that needs to be evoked about the cold, merciless disposition of Mother Nature towards a sole human being struggling to overcome. Darwin-esque very much so, but if you are a glass half-full person, as I have known to be on occasion, you just might find the beauty an' enormity of the world around you in even such a tragedy. Anyone interested in even the most basic forms of existentialism should find much of worth in Jack London.
Excellent Writing. October 25, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Occasionally a writer creates a story that is both horrible and wonderful; TO BUILD A FIRE is one of these stories. Reading it I thought of some negative criticism I had recently read about London's writing. I think the critic is full of it. TO BUILD A FIRE and much of London's writing is high octane, powerful stuff.
One of the few books that has "The Story of Keesh" September 6, 1998
11 out of 18 found this review helpful
Has some hard to find stories that I like.
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