best short stories of Jack London Author:Jack London "Raw and Raked, Wild and Free" — ...that was the way Jack London saw life, and the more he lived it the more enamored of it he became. "All I saw," he once wrote, "was glamor of conquest, of scarlet adventure and yellow gold... The life was brave and wild, and I was living the adventure I hade read so much about." — Brillian, poetic, swift with vi... more »olence and action, his stories clearly illustrate the unique spirit of his unbridled genius. Critics admitted that the young firebrand - "while frightfully primitive" - was challenging Poe, Kipling, and Melville as a one-in-a-million storyteller. The tales in this volume have been thrilling readers for nearly half a century.« less