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 where rugged individuals,such as the Malemute Kid, face the violence of man and nature during the Gold Rush days...
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 where 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 firebrand 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.
Selected Klondike Stories
To the Man on Trail
The White Silence
In a Far Country
The Wisdom of the Trail
An Odyssey of the North
The Law of Life
The God of His Fathers
Batard
The League of the Old Men
Love of Life
The Wit of Porportuk
To Build a Fire
Selected Short Stories
All Gold Canyon
The Apostate
South of the Slot
The Chinago
A Piece of Steak
Mauki
Koolau the Leper
The Strength of the Strong
War
The Mexican
Told in the Drooling Ward
The Water Baby
The Red One
A Note on the Text
Selected Bibliography