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Love of Life, and Other Stories

By: Jack London
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen" and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel.

This collection includes "Love of Life", "A Day's Lodging", "The White Man's Way", "The Story of Keesh", "The Unexpected", "Brown Wolf", "The Sun-Dog Trail", and "Negore, the Coward".

Public Domain (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Short Stories Funny Wolf
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Insightful workings of human and animal spirit where man and beast strive to survive. I loved the red indian wisdom.

Great author

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Nobody does the short story form better than London. His tales of survival in brutal conditions are compelling. Who else could write about outwitting a Polar Bear or Wolf? And this is where the 'love of life' of the title comes from; the desire and need to do whatever is necessary to survive.

The narrator is a perfect match thanks to his warm gravely voice. Felt like I was sat around a campfire - thankfully one without any predators lurking nearby...

Master of the short story

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Love the twisting and turning the tales take as they roll out the most amazing stories

Amazing tales

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I really enjoyed these stories, which were told with a lot of insight. The narrator's voice was so melodic, at times I was enjoying the sound and forgetting to listen.

Beautiful

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What a storyteller he was. They have a touch of the old Gàidhlig folk tales to them. Excellently narrated by a wonderful storyteller too. Highly recommend.

Timeless

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