Other editions of book The God of His Fathers

Jack London was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century, and remains one of the most beloved, but while his novels have remained continuously in print for a century, his short stories have been much harder to find. This collection of stories from his time in Alaska is probably his most famous and admired collection of tales.

Short stories collection.As a young man in the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London’s best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive.

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."-- From "The God of His Fathers"

A handsome copy, in vertically ribbed blue cloth with gilt cover and spine. A solid copy showing only minimal wear and slight dulling of the spine and gilt lettering. Almosts qualifies as a fine copy, definitely a strong very good or very good plus. Solid interior with unbroken hinges, although the rear hinge shows signs of light cracking, still strong. Jack London's second book. First edition with Mcmi (1901 in Roman Numerals) on the title page. 8vo.

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