Love of Life, and Other Stories

by Jack London

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Love of Life
44:37
A Day's Lodging
31:34
The White Man's Way
31:39
The Story of Keesh
21:54
The Unexpected
39:26
Brown Wolf
35:05
The Sun-Dog Trail
57:15
Negore, the Coward
24:24

Love of Life, and Other Stories (1907) is a public domain work.

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An injured traveller watches his companion walk away across the Canadian Barrens, leaving him to face the cold and hunger alone. Jack London's collection opens with a struggle measured in small practical decisions: finding a route, protecting matches and making damaged footwear serve a little longer. The man knows where supplies should be waiting, but reaching them depends on both physical endurance and his determination to believe that help is still possible.

Elsewhere in these short adventure stories, danger comes from people as well as the landscape. The middle excerpt puts Edith Nelson and her husband in a sudden confrontation with an armed man, then shows Edith trying to restrain her husband's fury once the immediate threat has passed. Readers interested in survival fiction will find close attention to bodily effort, fear and the difficult boundary between defending a life and losing control.

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Jack London

Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and adventurer whose tales of the Yukon and the sea·The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf·made him one of the most popular writers of his time.