Contributor(s):Author: Jack LondonRaw and Raked, Wild and Free.
that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became.
All I saw, he once wrote, was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold.
The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I had read so much about.
Brilliant, poetic, swift with violence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius.
Critics admitted that the young firebrand -- while frightfully primitive -- was challenging Poe, Kipling and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller.
The tales in this volume have been thrilling readers for nearly half a century.
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