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Title: Love of Life, and Other Stories
Note: Reading ease score: 91.3 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Contents: Love of life -- A day's lodging -- The white man's way -- The story of Keesh -- The unexpected -- Brown Wolf -- The sun-dog trail -- Negore, the coward.
Credits:
David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org, from the 1913 Macmillan and Co. edition
Summary: "Love of Life, and Other Stories" by Jack London is a collection of short stories written during the early 20th century. The opening story, titled "Love of Life," introduces readers to the harsh realities of survival against the odds, as it follows two men, Bill and another unnamed man, who are struggling in the unforgiving wilderness of the Canadian Barrens. The themes of despair, endurance, and the innate will to survive are prominently explored as the characters contend with their physical and emotional hardships. The beginning of "Love of Life" immerses us in the daunting landscape, where the two men are heavily burdened and clearly exhausted. One man, whose sprained ankle hampers him, desperately calls out to his companion Bill, who continues on without looking back. This sets up a poignant tension as he comes to realize his isolation and the overwhelming challenge of survival in an empty and desolate wilderness. We witness his internal battles against fear and despair as he fights to overcome physical pain and the gnawing hunger that threatens his existence, ultimately embodying the predominant theme of survival against both nature and human instinct in Jack London's writing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: London, Jack, 1876-1916
Illustrator: Bull, Charles Livingston, 1874-1932
EBook No.: 710
Published: Nov 1, 1996
Downloads: 1101
Language: English
Subject: Fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Western stories
Subject: Adventure stories, American
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Love of Life, and Other Stories
Note: Reading ease score: 91.3 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Contents: Love of life -- A day's lodging -- The white man's way -- The story of Keesh -- The unexpected -- Brown Wolf -- The sun-dog trail -- Negore, the coward.
Credits:
David
Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org, from the 1913 Macmillan and Co. edition
Summary: "Love of Life, and Other Stories" by Jack London is a collection of short stories written during the early 20th century. The opening story, titled "Love of Life," introduces readers to the harsh realities of survival against the odds, as it follows two men, Bill and another unnamed man, who are struggling in the unforgiving wilderness of the Canadian Barrens. The themes of despair, endurance, and the innate will to survive are prominently explored as the characters contend with their physical and emotional hardships. The beginning of "Love of Life" immerses us in the daunting landscape, where the two men are heavily burdened and clearly exhausted. One man, whose sprained ankle hampers him, desperately calls out to his companion Bill, who continues on without looking back. This sets up a poignant tension as he comes to realize his isolation and the overwhelming challenge of survival in an empty and desolate wilderness. We witness his internal battles against fear and despair as he fights to overcome physical pain and the gnawing hunger that threatens his existence, ultimately embodying the predominant theme of survival against both nature and human instinct in Jack London's writing. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Author: London, Jack, 1876-1916
Illustrator: Bull, Charles Livingston, 1874-1932
EBook No.: 710
Published: Nov 1, 1996
Downloads: 1101
Language: English
Subject: Fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Western stories
Subject: Adventure stories, American
LoCC: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.