{"product_id":"to-build-a-fire-and-other-stories-9780553213355","title":"To Build a Fire and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Build A Fire and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection of Jack London's short stories available in paperback. This superb volume brings together twenty-five of London's finest, including a dozen of his great Klondike stories, vivid tales of the Far North were rugged individuals, such as the \u003ci\u003eMalemute Kid\u003c\/i\u003e face the violence of man and nature during the Gold Rush Days. Also included are short masterpieces from his later writing, plus six stories unavailable in any other paperback edition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, along with London's famous wilderness adventures and fireband desperadoes, are portraits of the working man, the immigrant, and the exotic outcast: characters representing the entire span of the author's prolific imaginative career, in tales that have been acclaimed throughout the world as some of the most thrilling short stories ever written.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJack London (1876-1916), by turns a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent, and an avowed socialist, first achieved fame with \u003ci\u003eThe Son of the Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e (1900), a collection of short stories drawn from his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. \"The greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived,\" said Alfred Kazin.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613269725458,"sku":"9780553213355","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_31b9300b-c3af-4904-a329-a33bbabe829a.jpg?v=1748523092","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-build-a-fire-and-other-stories-9780553213355","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}