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The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Kindle Edition

by Jack London (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0082S2TYC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (May 12, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 12, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 356 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 174 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1604440929

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John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he 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 part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by published by L C Page and Company Boston 1903 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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Sean Shenold

Great read, esp. for the price

Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2017

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Classic Jack London collection of short stories. Beyond his writing style, these also highlight the cultural prejudices of the time in which he wrote, and how such prejudices were so commonplace in his day. Sort of a snapshot in time, featuring the supposed superiority of the White race. But beyond that is London's inimitable writing style, richly detailed with his phonetic spelling of accented English.

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Christoph64

Good Tales

Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2020

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Good set of stories from the Yukon gold rush. Not his best work but still worth reading. Check out White Fang.

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2016

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great stories .. London is at his best when his stories are set in the gold rush days of the Klondike ..

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N. Rich

Tough times during the Gold Rush

Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2017

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Tales of life in Alaska during the Gold Rush, and the hardships many had to endure. A good read before traveling to Alaska.

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More good stuff by Jack London

Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2014

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If you like stories of the Alaskan gold rush, you will enjoy these short stories.

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2011

This is Jack London's second collection of short stories, first published in 1901. All the stories take place during the Klondike gold rush in Alaska, the Yukon Territory, or elsewhere in the North. About half of the stories feature the inhabitants of Forty Mile, the recurring cast of characters that were introduced in his first collection. In this book London is still finding his way as a writer, and this selection of tales is a mixture of the masterpiece and the mediocre.

The two best stories in the book are similarly titled, though couldn't be more different. In "The Grit of Women," Indian trail guide Sitka Charley relates the story of how he and his wife Passuk made a grueling 700 mile journey to the Bering Sea during a time of famine. It's the type of gritty odyssey of man (and woman) struggling against harsh conditions that London does best. In "The Scorn of Women," the three most attractive women in Dawson vie for the attention of a clueless mining king as his fiancee makes the long trip up from the States. It's a lighthearted and clever comedy of manners, not the kind of thing London usually excels at, but this one works. Women feature prominently in many of the stories, ranging from devoted angels to evil femme fatales, and are always depicted as more intelligent and hard working than their male counterparts.

Native American characters are also well represented in this volume. Several stories are ill-served by one or two paragraphs extolling the destiny of the white man to triumph over the Indian. At times this obsession with race becomes a distraction and a detraction from otherwise enjoyable stories. London's antiquated misrepresentations of Darwinism don't translate well to the present day. To his credit, however, in London's stories the whites do not always triumph, but are often outsmarted, outworked, or outfought by their Native counterparts.

"At the Rainbow's End," "Jan, the Unrepentant," and "A Daughter of the Aurora" all suffer from weak endings. On the other hand, in "The Man with the Gash," in which a miserly hostel keeper receives a visit from a scarred stranger, the ending is rather predictable but so utterly original that you enjoy it anyway.

Overall, The God of His Fathers is not as successful a collection of stories as London's first book, The Son of the Wolf, but it still offers a taste of better things to come later in his career. All things considered, if you enjoy wilderness adventure then an average book by London is better than the best books of almost any other writer in the genre.

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BONNIE

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016

For my collection perfect

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Matthew L. Higley

Jack London always kept me amazed, when I read his stories in my youth

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2014

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Jack London always kept me amazed, when I read his stories in my youth. After reading about, Jack London and his life, his stories are more understandable and anwers the question, how he knew about some of his stories, he wrote. Through his life of experiences he had, one can have more understanding od how he could captivate his readers. As for this book he wrote some are really good stories to read, but a few not as exciting as the others.But you can find that, having to do with other authors, as well.

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