| The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): London, Jack (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598183311 ISBN-13: 9781598183313 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: This collection is London's second (the first being THE SUN OF THE WOLF) and was first published in 1901. In London's dedication he says: "These tales have appeared in "McClure's," "Ainslee's," "Outing," the "Overland Monthly," the ""Wave," the "National," and the San Francisco "Examiner." To the kindness of the various editors is due their reappearance in more permanent form." From the title story: "On every hand stretched the forest primeval, --the home of noisy comedy and silent tragedy. Here the struggle for survival continued to wage with all its ancient brutality. Briton and Russian were still to overlap in the Land of the Rainbow's End--and this was the very heart of it--nor had Yankee gold yet purchased its vast domain. The wolf-pack still clung to the flank of the cariboo-herd, singling out the weak and the big with calf, and pulling them down as remorselessly as were it a thousand, thousand generations into the past." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 136 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): London, Jack: - "John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire," "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life." He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen," and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf." |