To Build A Fire and other Stories

About this book

To Build A Fire and Other Stories is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack Londons short stories available in paperback. This superb volume brings together twenty-five of Londons 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 Londons 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 authors prolific imaginative career in tales that have been acclaimed throughout the world as some of the most thrilling short stories ever written.