Short Stories of Jack London: Authorized One-Volume Edition

By Jack London

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020223714
• ISBN13: 9780020223719
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Collier Books
• Length: 738 Pages
• Weight: 2.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

primal adventure , best of its genre.

Matchless story telling of life and death on the edge. Jack london has the ability to change ones world view in a story. Just read it. Share it with the next generations. Thanks Jack. And thanks also to whomever keeps this in print.

Tremendous variety

Besides the story "To build a Fire" which I read in junior high this is the first collection of stories by London that I have purchased and read. I have thoroughly enjoyed it. The writing is descriptive and alternately heartwrenching and heartwarming ( as is life). I am so glad that this was the first London book I bought, it will not be my last. You can get a good hardcover for under $5. Buy it, read it to your kids and grandkids, put it on your shelf and pull it down every year and reread it. Great adventures. Mr London makes you want to go where he has gone and do what he has done. Wonderful!!

Rare short stories authorized by the London Estate

Of the many collections of Jack London short stories, this one has to be the best. Of the 50 stories authorized by Jack London's family, there are two versions of London's famous "To Build a Fire"- the original he wrote in 1902 and the the more famous one that he rewrote in 1908 from memory of the original version. Notes at the end of the book give insight to each story detailing his struggles to get many published, the amount he was paid, and commentary from Jack on some of them.