South Sea Tales

Jack London, Tony Horwitz, Christopher Gair

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English

Modern Library Inc
15 March 2002

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Tales derive their intensity from the author's own far-flung adventures, conveying an impassioned, unsparing vision borne only of experience. The powerful tales gathered here vividly evoke the turn-of-the-century colonial Pacific and its capricious tropical landscape, while also trenchantly observing the delicate interplay between imperialism and the exotic. And as Tony Horwitz asserts in his Introduction, ""When London's stories click, we are utterly there, at the edge of the world and the limit of human endurance.""

By: Jack London
Introduction by: Tony Horwitz
Edited by: Christopher Gair
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 314g
ISBN: 9780375759291
ISBN 10: 0375759298
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 15 March 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christopher Gair is a lecturer in American Studies at the University of Birmingham, and a contributor to the Jack London Journal and other publications. He lives in Cambridge, England. Tony Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of Confederates in the Attic, among other books. He lives in Virginia.

Reviews for South Sea Tales

“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of his short stories has been almost forgotten.”—George Orwell