A choice collection from one of the world's great storytellers! With an Introduction by EUGENE BURDICK!

... 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.

INTRODUCTION

TO BUILD A FIRE

AN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTH

LOST FACE

A PIECE OF STEAK

THE HEATHEN

THE LAW OF LIFE

TO THE MAN ON TRAIL

THE WIR OF PORPORTUK

LOVE OF LIFE

THE PEARLS OF PARLAY