To Build a Fire and Other Stories -- Jack London

<p><i>To Build A Fire and Other Stories</i> 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 <i>Malemute Kid</i> 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. <p/>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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Jack London<br><b>Publisher:</b> Bantam Classics<br><b>Published:</b> 04/01/1986<br><b>Pages:</b> 432<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.46lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 6.92h x 4.26w x 0.93d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780553213355<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Jack London (1876-1916), by turns a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent, and an avowed socialist, first achieved fame with <i>The Son of the Wolf</i> (1900), a collection of short stories drawn from his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. "The greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived,"