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To Build a Fire (Simplified version edited by George Kirby)

By Jack London

To Build a Fire (Simplified version edited by George Kirby)

By Jack London

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Jack LondonJack London, born in San Francisco in 1876, had to leave school at an early age to earn his living. At the age of 17 he became a sailor, and in 1897, when gold was discovered in Alaska and the Yukon, he took part in the Klondike gold rush. His experiences and adventures in the icy wilderness of the Far North are reflected in his novels, The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906), and in many of his short stories.Jack London is especially remembered for his very sympathetic animal stories, and the three in this collection all deal with the relationships between men and their dogs in the struggle for existence against hostile forces of nature. In To Build a Fire (3), one of London's most powerful stories, a newcomer to the Yukon fights a grim, losing battle against the Arctic cold. In Spot (25) we are given a humorous insight into the nature of a very unusual dog; and Brâtard (45) is the story of a pitiless struggle for mastery between the sadistic Black Leclere and his 'wolfdog' Brâtard.After leading an adventurous life, Jack London spent his later years in ocean travel or on his ranch in California. There he died, aged 4o, in 1916.
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Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
72
Publication Date:
1975
Publisher:
Ernst Klett; Stuttgart
ISBN10:
3125499003
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