Jack London Short Stories
A Seven-Day Gateway to Stories of Survival and the Will to Endure
Survival, instinct, and the wilderness at its most unforgiving.
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Jack London is famous for The Call of the Wild and White Fang — but neither of those is in this collection. What's here instead is leaner and, in some ways, harder to shake: seven short stories where nature doesn't care whether you live, and neither does anyone else.
Together they trace the question at the centre of nearly everything London wrote: what does it cost to endure? A man alone on a frozen trail. An old man left behind by his own tribe when he can no longer keep pace. An ageing boxer who learns exactly what one missed meal is worth. A debt that turns a person into property.
Inside this volume
- The White Silence
- The Law of Life
- To Build a Fire
- Love of Life
- A Piece of Steak
- An Odyssey of the North
- The Wit of Porportuk
Every volume includes
- Seven complete short stories, one for each day
- A reading note before each story, so you're never reading blind
- An introduction to the author and where they sit in literary history
- Discussion questions built in — for reflection or group use
- An annotated guide to what to read next
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