Name: To Build a Fire and Other Stories (Bantam Classics)
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Author: London, Jack
ISBN: 9780553213355

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To Build a Fire and Other Stories (Bantam Classics)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jack London

Publisher

Bantam Classics

Year

1986

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

17.6 x 10.8 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN

0553213350

ISBN13

9780553213355

Synopsis "To Build a Fire and Other Stories (Bantam Classics) "

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

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Jack London (1876-1916), pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, is one of the great American writers of the early 20th century. His world is inspired by a very subjective interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and is built on the principle of survival of the fittest. Born in San Francisco, he was essentially a self-taught child who avidly read the collections of the public library. At seventeen, he embarked on his first schooner, heading to Japan. After several experiences as a sailor and vagabond -which also led to his imprisonment-, London attended Oakland High School and later, the University of California, which he had to leave due to financial problems. Like many, he suffered from gold fever until he finally turned to writing.

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