ISBN Best Short Stories of Jack London book English Paperback 192 pages

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.

Jack London—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time…