Love of life jack london book

AuthorLondon, Jack, 1876-1916IllustratorBull, Charles Livingston, 1874-1932Title 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.) LanguageEnglishLoC ClassPS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literatureSubject Fiction Subject Short stories Subject Western stories Subject Adventure stories, American CategoryTextEBook-No.710Release DateNov 1, 1996Most Recently UpdatedMar 8, 2022Copyright StatusPublic domain in the USA.Downloads874 downloads in the last 30 days.Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!