An Odyssey of the North

The three stories featured here are not only set during the Klondike Gold Rush, but are a good representation of the evolution of Jack London as a writer. An Odyssey of the North... shows London in his early years as a writer and the story follows the tradition of Conrad's Lord Jim and Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King; while Jack London becomes a master story-teller in To Build a Fire and Love of Life. An Odyssey of the North tells the tale of a Native retrieving his wife back from being...