Unabridged Jack London [Hardcover]

Jack London (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0894711563 | ISBN-13: 978-0894711565 | Publication Date: December 1986

These elegant volumes are bound in simulated leather with titles stamped in gold and gilt-edged pages.

This collection includes complete and original versions of his novels and short stories, including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Running Press (December 1986)
• ISBN-10: 0894711563
• ISBN-13: 978-0894711565
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,179,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Nothing but the Text, December 30, 2000

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Gregory N. Hullender (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Unabridged Jack London (Paperback)

1143 pages of Jack London stories, and barely a word of anything else. The editors of this volume have done little more than reprint a large selection of his Yukon stories plus a few sea stories -- they offer no useful commentary of their own on his work. Note that this is NOT "the Complete Jack London." Since he published some 50-odd books in his lifetime, you couldn't get all that into a single volume.

The glory of this book is London's vivid descriptions of the Yukon and its inhabitants during the Klondike Gold Rush. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that he wasn't nearly as politically incorrect in his accounts of the natives as I'd feared he was -- he's no Kipling of the North -- but his descriptions of both people and places often seem fresh and insightful. That said, this book contains essentially all of his Yukon stories, and they are not ALL great -- worth reading thorough, nevertheless, but nothing surpasses "To Build a Fire" and "Call of the Wild." (Both of which are in this collection, of course.)

On the purely physical front, my paperback edition was poorly bound, and pages were falling out before I was 2/3 through it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Mr London, November 25, 2011

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William Harbidge - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Unabridged Jack London (Paperback)

Jack London is an amazing author but,,, because of the size of this paperback the pages seem to come unglued if not real careful. Knowing this I have stayed away from bending the binding but in order to read the pages you have to pull back and I am paying so much attention to this that I'm not following the plot carefully. In another words the binding really sucks - warning stay away from paperbacks that are too thick