The Unabridged Jack London (Courage Unabridged Classics) (Leather Bound)

by Jack London (Author), Lawrence Teacher (Editor), Richard E. Nicholls (Editor), Suzanne Clee (Illustrator) "Carmen won't last more than a couple of days" Mason spat out a chunk of ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put her..." (more)
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London's sprawling tales of heroic Klondike characters in an untamed wilderness have excited the imaginations of readers since the beginning of this century. This collection includes complete and original versions of London's novels and short stories, including THE CALL OF THE WILD, WHITE FANG, and THE SEA-WOLF. 1,152.

Product Details

• Leather Bound: 1152 pages
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762401796
• ISBN-13: 978-0762401796
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.4 x 3.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,993,671 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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

By	Gregory N. Hullender (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Jack London Unabr Pb Ed (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.