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SeaWolf Press is proud to offer another book in its Jack London 100th Anniversary Collection. Each book in the collection contains the text, illustrations, and cover from the first edition (but it is not just a photocopy.) Use Amazon's Lookinside feature to compare this edition with others. You'll be impressed by the differences. Our version has: Text that has been proofread to avoid errors common in other versions. A beautiful cover that replicates the first edition cover. The complete text in an easy-to-read font similar to the original. Properly formatted text complete with correct indenting, spacing, footnotes, italics, and tables. Look for other Jack London books in our 100th Anniversary Collection. A collection of eight of Jack London's classic short stories. This was one of Jack's earliest books and focuses mainly on his experience among the gold miners and trappers of the Yukon Territory. Besides an interesting tale about an evil dog, it covers life among the native tribes. "The One Thousand Dozen" tale is an interesting, though tragic, yarn about the value of eggs in a frontier environment.

The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty-year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel on his personal observations.Joe Fleming earns his livelihood as a sailmaker and supports his mother and sisters. He adds to his income by taking part in prize-fights at sporting clubs. He is due to be married to Genevieve, who works in the Silversteins' candy shop. Joe agrees to give up "the game" but asks that Genevieve watch his last fight, on the eve of their wedding, and she reluctantly agrees. The story is told from Genevieve's point of view.

I wash my hands of him at the start. I cannot father his tales, nor will I be responsible for them. I make these preliminary reservations, observe, as a guard upon my own integrity. I possess a certain definite position in a small way, also a wife; and for the good name of the community that honours my existence with its approval, and for the sake of her posterity and mine, I cannot take the chances I once did, nor foster probabilities with the careless improvidence of youth. So, I repeat, I wash my hands of him, this Nimrod, this mighty hunter, this homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced Thomas Stevens.

This ebook includes a biographical introduction, a short, critical analysis of London's work within the historical context and a brief introduction to this work.First published in 1904 by MacMillan, The Faith of Men is a collection of short pieces connected by being located in the North, mostly the Klondike.Considered by many to be London's finest Klondike collection, the set of eight includes the absolutely brutal tale of Batard, a savage dog set against a savage master. Other stories centre on native Indians including The Story of Jees Uck, a touching romance about an affair between a trading post operator and a young, mixed blood, indian woman.

The Faith Of Men by Jack London, an American author and activist. Best known for the novel 'The Call of the Wild' Jack London was also a prolific short story writer. This is a fine example of London's stories and a great addition to the collection. Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards the Freeriver Community project, a project designed to promote harmonious community living and well-being in the world. To learn more about the Freeriver project please visit the website - www.freerivercommunity.com

A selection of short tales written by Jack London. The Faith of Men includes these chapters: A Relic of the Pliocene; A Hyperborean Brew; The Faith of Men; Too Much Gold; The One Thousand Dozen; The Marriage of Lit lit Batard; and The Story of Jees Uck. John Griffith "Jack" London born John Griffith Chaney was a U.S. author, journalist, and social activist. A forerunner in the earlier expanding world of industrial magazine fiction, he was among the first fiction novelists to acquire international celebrity and an enormous success through only his fiction, as well as science fiction. A few of his best known novels are The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both situated in the Klondike Gold Rush and the short tales To Build a Fire, An Odyssey of the North, and Love of Life. He also authored of the South Pacific in tales including The Pearls of Parlay and The Heathen, and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. Jack joined the extremist literary group The Crowd in San Francisco and a devoted promoter of unionization, socialism, and the rights of laborers. He composed numerous formidable writings about these matters, like his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction depiction The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes. Jack London's mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones. Marshall Wellman was derived from Thomas Wellman, one of the first Puritan settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Flora left Ohio and settled in the Pacific coast when her father re-wedded after the death of her mother. In San Francisco, Flora became a music instructor and spiritualist, asserting to channel the soul of a Sauk chief, Black Hawk.

The Faith of Men is a short story collection originally published in 1904 and contains eight of Jack London's adventure tales, all of them set in London's favorite milieu -- the Yukon Territory. "A Relic of the Pliocene" concerns a "homely, blue-eyed, freckle-faced" hunter named Thomas Stevens and his tracking and eventual killing of a prehistoric mammoth. "A Hyperborean Brew" also concerns Thomas Stevens and his schemes. "In Batard," an evil master makes a monster of an evil dog.