To Build a Fire and Other Stories

<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>