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I first read Jack London when I was thirteen - a short story in our eighth grade reader entitled “To Build a Fire.” That story has stayed with me my entire life. As a young adult, I devoured “The Call of the Wild”. Earlier this year my hubby and I read a later piece written by London, “The

En 1909 se publicó "La casa del orgullo", libro que contiene seis relatos cortos ambientados en las islas de Hawai. Las historias en general se centran en la relación entre la población autóctona y "el hombre blanco" que poco a poco se fue apoderando de todo el territorio. OPINIÓN: Jack London se ad

Having known Jack London only from childhood readings of White Fang and Call of the Wild, I was not expecting him to be such a philosopher, a poet, prosaic, a keen observer of humanity.

Across these six stories, London tackles the trappings of religion, the blessings and trials of family ties, coloni

I think that I may have read these stories years ago when I was in Hawaii. I don't remember any of them, though the one about the leper who refuses to be taken from his native Kauai to the leper colony on Molokai seemed familiar.

Jack London was a master storyteller. He writes in a simple style, but

of course I am biased - but the stories about a people who hae been enveloped by American expansionism and the sufferings of the Hawaiian people from missionaries and leprosy are well told by Jack London - he is always my favorite author