To Build a Fire: A Short Story

by Jack London

Overview

To Build a Fire by Jack London is about an unnamed male protagonist who ventures out in the subzero boreal forest of the Yukon Territory. He is followed by a native dog and is en route to visit his friends—ignoring warnings from an older man (an elder from the Sulphur Creek) about the dangers of hiking alone in extreme cold. The protagonist underestimates the harsh conditions and slowly begins to freeze to death. After building a fire and leaving it to continue his journey, he later attempts to build another. Then tries to kill the dog to gain access to its body heat, but fails to do either. He slips into unconsciousness and dies of hypothermia. One of the most read short stories by Jack London.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788835843481
Publisher:	Diamond Book Publishing
Publication date:	06/06/2020
Series:	Jack London Collection , #23
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	993 KB

About the Author

Jack London

Table of Contents

Introduction
To Build a Fire
Love of Life
The Chinago
Told in the Drooling Ward
The Mexican
War
South of the Slot
The Water Baby
All Gold Canyon
Koolau the Leper
The Apostate
Mauki
An Odyssey of the North
A Piece of Steak
The Strength of the Strong
The Red One
The Wit of Porportuk
The God of His Fathers
In a Far Country
To the Man on Trail
The White Silence
The League of the Old Men
The Wisdom of the Trail
Batard
Afterword
About the Author