Children of the Frost
by Jack London
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American journalist and action-adventure writer Jack London had a life-long fascination with the indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest, and he brings his extensive research and first-hand experience in the region to bear in the fiction he wrote about these communities..
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> [Des pages vraiment glacées] — « LES ENFANTS DU FROID », de Jack London. — La ruée vers l'or dans les forêts du Nord canadien. Une « humaine folie » vue à travers les yeux des Indiens et racontée par l'écrivain le plus lu dans le monde. Ed. Phébus Libretto, 211 pages, 55 F.
—Philippe Duval, le 23 déc. 2000 (Le Parisien)
> [Des pages vraiment glacées] — « LES ENFANTS DU FROID », de Jack London. — La ruée vers l'or dans les forêts du Nord canadien. Une « humaine folie » vue à travers les yeux des Indiens et racontée par l'écrivain le plus lu dans le monde. Ed. Phébus Libretto, 211 pages, 55 F.
—Philippe Duval, le 23 déc. 2000 (Le Parisien)
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One of the pioneers of 20th century American literature, Jack London specialized in tales of adventure inspired by his own experiences. London was born in San Francisco in 1876. At 14, he quit school and became an "oyster pirate," robbing oyster beds to sell his booty to the bars and restaurants in Oakland. Later, he turned on his pirate show more associates and joined the local Fish Patrol, resulting in some hair-raising waterfront battles. Other youthful activities included sailing on a seal-hunting ship, traveling the United States as a railroad tramp, a jail term for vagrancy and a hazardous winter in the Klondike during the 1897 gold rush. Those experiences converted him to socialism, as he educated himself through prolific reading and began to write fiction. After a struggling apprenticeship, London hit literary paydirt by combining memories of his adventures with Darwinian and Spencerian evolutionary theory, the Nietzchean concept of the "superman" and a Kipling-influenced narrative style. "The Son of the Wolf"(1900) was his first popular success, followed by 'The Call of the Wild" (1903), "The Sea-Wolf" (1904) and "White Fang" (1906). He also wrote nonfiction, including reportage of the Russo-Japanese War and Mexican revolution, as well as "The Cruise of the Snark" (1911), an account of an eventful South Pacific sea voyage with his wife, Charmian, and a rather motley crew. London's body broke down prematurely from his rugged lifestyle and hard drinking, and he died of uremic poisoning - possibly helped along by a morphine overdose - at his California ranch in 1916. Though his massive output is uneven, his best works - particularly "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" - have endured because of their rich subject matter and vigorous prose. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Children of the Frost
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- 1902
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- A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard North is supposed to deny the Earth, are to be found great sweeps of forests and stretches of smiling land.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And though it all he observed the Law, pitiless and potent, ever unswerving and ever ordaining, greater than the motes of men who fulfilled it or were crushed by it, even as it was greater than he, his heat speaking for softness.
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