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Unabridged Jack London
by Jack London
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Running Press (1986-12)
ISBN: 0894711563
EAN: 9780894711565
Hardcover
SKU: 20121
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Stamp on page edges. Book pages clean and crisp with no markings.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
London's sprawling tales of heroic Klondike characters in an untamed wilderness have excited the imaginations of readers since the beginning of this century. This collection includes complete and original versions of London's novels and short stories, including THE CALL OF THE WILD, WHITE FANG, and THE SEA-WOLF. 1,152.
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Customer Reviews
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Nothing but the Text
Rating  (3)
Date: 2000-12-31
21 out of 23 customers found this reveiw helpful
1143 pages of Jack London stories, and barely a word of anything else. The editors of this volume have done little more than reprint a large selection of his Yukon stories plus a few sea stories -- they offer no useful commentary of their own on his work. Note that this is NOT "the Complete Jack London." Since he published some 50-odd books in his lifetime, you couldn't get all that into a single volume.The glory of this book is London's vivid descriptions of the Yukon and its inhabitants during the Klondike Gold Rush. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he wasn't nearly as politically incorrect in his accounts of the natives as I'd feared he was -- he's no Kipling of the North -- but his descriptions of both people and places often seem fresh and insightful. That said, this book contains essentially all of his Yukon stories, and they are not ALL great -- worth reading thorough, nevertheless, but nothing surpasses "To Build a Fire" and "Call of the Wild." (Both of which are in this collection, of course.) On the purely physical front, my paperback edition was poorly bound, and pages were falling out before I was 2/3 through it.
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