Sunday, September 13, 2020

Lost Face

The stories in this Jack London collection, published in 1910, are full of brutality, humor, and terror. "To Build a Fire" is the best example I've read of a story that builds with mounting dread to a conclusion that is both inevitable and affecting. What comes through in all of Lost Face is London's keen understanding of his setting and of human nature.

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