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| Best Short Stories of Jack London | 
| Author: Jack London
Publisher: Fawcett
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 39318
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 0449300536
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780449300534
ASIN: 0449300536
Publication Date: November 12, 1986
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| Customer Reviews:
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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