Lust for Life: A Collection of Short Stories (SL)

Jack London's stories are about interesting journeys, risky adventures and severe trials that the author experienced in his youth in the snowy expanses of the American North. From a number of the author's own impressions and stories told by the old-timers of this land, on the pages of the book Jack London creates a special, unique in its silent and ascetic beauty world - a world where unbearable cold only inflames human passions, where fortunes are easily acquired and in an instant the last hopes are shattered, where characters are tempered, destinies are irreparably broken; a world where man and nature test each other for strength again and again and where, despite the icy breath of death, people and animals relentlessly move forward, because they are attracted by an indestructible thirst for life...