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Jack London

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Vlaburi!  You stop.”

“To Guvutu—immediately,” was her reply.

“But I won’t permit it.”

“That is why I am going.  You said it once before, and it is something I cannot brook.”

“What?”  He was bewildered by her sudden anger.  “If I have offended in any way—”

“Viaburi, you fetch ’m one fella Noa Noah along me,” she commanded.

The black boy started to obey.

“Viaburi!  You no stop I break ’m head belong you.  And now, Miss Lackland, I insist—you must explain.  What have I said or done to merit this?”

“You have presumed, you have dared—”

She choked and swallowed, and could not go on.

Sheldon looked the picture of despair.

“I confess my head is going around with it all,” he said.  “If you could only be explicit.”<. . . Read More

Community Reviews

To Build a Fire by Jack London is an American Literature Classic Short Story!

An inexperienced unnamed man strikes out on the Yukon Trail to meet with friends. He's without a sled, only his dog for company, wearing mittens, but his face is uncovered and cold. Walking through the snow is a struggle fo

To Build a Fire is about a man in the Yukon, the upper parts of Canada. He is walking to town in 75 degrees below zero weather with his husky when he suddenly slips through some snow and falls into a puddle of water up to his knee. To save his life, the man needs to build a fire.

This short story wa

I never knew that there were two versions of this story, a 1902 story first published in YOUTH'S COMPANION magazine and a decidedly more mature version published in 1908 in CENTURY magazine. Both are realistic stories of a man's foolish actions which lead to disaster in the frozen Klondike. Vivid de

“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did

Well, despite the oppressive heat and humidity in western New York yesterday, this little story by Jack London managed to give me the chills! London is a master at recreating the sights, sounds and feelings of the harsh elements of the north. I seriously got up and made a cup of hot coffee in the la

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