{"product_id":"the-portable-jack-london-isbn-9780140179699","title":"The Portable Jack London","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssential stories, letters, and writings from the influential American author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlfred Kazin has aptly remarked that \"the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived.\" Newsboy, factory \"work beast,\" gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer: London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes: What does it mean to be a human being in the natural world? What debts do human beings owe each other—and to all their fellow creatures?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection places London, at last, securely within the American literary pantheon. It includes the complete novel \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e; such famous stories as \"Love of Life,\" \"To Build a Fire,\" and \"All Gold Canyon\"; journalism, political writings, literary criticism, and selected letters.Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChronology of Jack London's Life and Books\u003cbr\u003eNote on the Texts and Selections\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected Stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the Man on Trail\u003cbr\u003eIn a Far Country\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of Life\u003cbr\u003eA Relic of the Pliocene\u003cbr\u003eNam-Bok the Unveracious\u003cbr\u003eTo Build a Fire (1902)\u003cbr\u003eMoon-Face\u003cbr\u003eBâtard\u003cbr\u003eLove of Life\u003cbr\u003eAll Gold Canyon\u003cbr\u003eThe Apostate\u003cbr\u003eTo Build a Fire (1908)\u003cbr\u003eThe Chinago\u003cbr\u003eKoolau the Leper\u003cbr\u003eGood-by, Jack\u003cbr\u003eMauki\u003cbr\u003eThe Strength of the Strong\u003cbr\u003eSamuel\u003cbr\u003eA Piece of Steak\u003cbr\u003eThe Madness of John Harned\u003cbr\u003eThe Night-Born\u003cbr\u003eWar\u003cbr\u003eTold in the Drooling Ward\u003cbr\u003eThe Mexican\u003cbr\u003eThe Red One\u003cbr\u003eThe Water Baby\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Wild\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTyphoon off the Coast of Japan\u003cbr\u003eOn the Writer's Philosophy of Life\u003cbr\u003eFirst Aid to Rising Authors\u003cbr\u003eReview of Frank Norris's \u003ci\u003eThe Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts from \u003ci\u003eThe People of the Abyss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow I Became a Socialist\u003cbr\u003eGetting into Print\u003cbr\u003eThe Terrible and Tragic in Fiction\u003cbr\u003eWhat Life Means to Me\u003cbr\u003eThings Alive\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of an Eye-Witness\u003cbr\u003eReports on the James J. Jeffries-Jack Johnson Championship Fight\u003cbr\u003eA Classic of the Sea\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction to \u003ci\u003eThe Cry for Justice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEight Factors of Literary Success\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Selection of Letters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the Editor, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e, September 17, 1898\u003cbr\u003eTo Mabel Applegarth, November 27, 1898\u003cbr\u003eTo Mabel Applegarth, November 30, 1898\u003cbr\u003eTo Anna Strunsky, December 21, 1899\u003cbr\u003eTo Houghton, Mifflin \u0026amp; Co., January 31, 1900\u003cbr\u003eTo Cloudesley Johns, June 16, 1900\u003cbr\u003eTo George P. Brett, March 10, 1903\u003cbr\u003eTo Charmian Kittredge, September 30, 1903\u003cbr\u003eTo Frederick I. Bamford, May 28, 1905\u003cbr\u003eTo Cloudesley Johns, September 4, 1905\u003cbr\u003eTo \"Dear Comrades,\" December 1905\u003cbr\u003eTo S.S. McClure, April 10, 1906\u003cbr\u003eTo the Editor of \u003ci\u003eEditor\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, April 1907\u003cbr\u003eTo Becky London, October 28, 1908\u003cbr\u003eTo Richard W. Gilder, December 22, 1908\u003cbr\u003eTo William E. Walling, November 30, 1909\u003cbr\u003eTo the Editor, \u003ci\u003eHonolulu Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e, January 7, 1910\u003cbr\u003eTo the \"Comrades of the Mexican Revolution,\" February 4, 1911\u003cbr\u003eTo Ethan A. Cross, March 17, 1914\u003cbr\u003eTo Joseph Conrad, June 4, 1915\u003cbr\u003eTo Ethelda Hesser, September 21, 1915\u003cbr\u003eTo John R. Lindmark, September 21, 1915\u003cbr\u003eTo Mary Austin, November 5, 1915\u003cbr\u003eTo the Members of Local Glen Ellen, Socialist Labor Party, March 7, 1916\u003cbr\u003eTo Leo B. Mihan, October 24, 1916\u003cbr\u003eTo Waldo Frank, November 5, 1916\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cb\u003eJohn Griffith \"Jack\" London\u003c\/b\u003e (1876–1916) is an American author, journalist, and social activist. Some of his most famous works include \u003cu\u003eThe Call of the Wild\u003c\/u\u003e and \u003cu\u003eWhite Fang\u003c\/u\u003e, as well as the short stories \"To Build a Fire\", \"An Odyssey of the North\", and \"Love of Life\".","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301978788069,"sku":"NP9780140179699","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140179699.jpg?v=1767741008","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-portable-jack-london-isbn-9780140179699","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}