Jack London Stories of Adventure

The dog-sled dustjacket is from the 1980 Castle edition. There is an introduction by Russ Kingman. The stories are printed in two columns per page. Many b & w illus.

This book has a number of short stories of Jack London, as well as his novel, The Game. Each story paints a pictire of a time long gone. Adventure, bravery, and honor are the values of the men of these stories. In a harsh time, the men and women had to be resilliant, and maintain thier cheer in the face of hardship. The tales are a window into the past, and Jack London, one of the greatest writers of his time, captured the essense of life in the frontier, on the sea, and in the hearts and minds of the people of the past. Although only a century past, this era is as far from our modern society as the hard days of Egil Skaligrimson(one of the first Icelendic Vikings in the new world) or Ponce DeLeon.These sorts of stories should be read by everyone, espically students of history and literature. Bravery in the face of hardship is something which we all should understand even in our comparitivly easy and rich times. We should attempt to capture the essence of this bravery and courage and pass it on for the future.