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Jack London: The Short Stories Audiobook
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While Jack London is famed for novels like White Fang and The Call of the Wild, the short story is where the author's true genius lay. This collection includes four of these wonderful short stories: "The Law of Life," in which an old Indian chief reflects on life and death in his final hours, alone in the snow; "The White Silence," a story of three travelers in the far north, struggling on their long journey home; "In a Far Country," in which two fatally unprepared men join a gold expedition to the Yukon, and "An Odyssey of the North," a tale of a revenge seeker's travels across the northern seas.
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About Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. Before making a living at his writing, he spent time as an oyster pirate, a sailor, a cannery worker, a gold miner, and a journalist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction writing. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during 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.” He was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, including The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
About William Dufris
William Dufris attended the University of Southern Maine in Portland-Gorham before pursuing a career in voice work in London and then the United States. He has won more than twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards, was voted one of the Best Voices at the End of the Century by AudioFile magazine, and won the prestigious Audie Award in 2012 for best nonfiction narration. He lives with his family in Maine.