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'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.

The Best Short Stories of Jack London

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      Publisher Random House Publishing Group
      Published 11 December 1986
      ISBN-13 9780449300534
      978-0449300534
      ISBN-10 0449300536
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      Book Synopsis
      '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.

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