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Contributor(s):Author: Jack LondonEditor: Matthew AspreyPreface by: Rodger JacobsFrom one of Americas great writers, this delightful collection - the first of its kind - contains twenty-three adventurous tales set in the San Francisco Bay Area. If San Francisco has captured the worlds imagination through the hardboiled stories of Dashiell Hammett, the prose and poetry of Jack Kerouac and his fellow Beats, through Orson Welles Lady From Shanghai and Alfred Hitchcocks Vertigo, it is as a romantic city of vast suspension bridges and foggy back alleys, not as the wild west of Jack Londons day. Pre-quake San Francisco was a tough town, and Jack London - hobo, sailor, oyster pirate, hard drinker - was pretty tough, too. Although famous for his stories of the Klondike and the Pacific, London wrote extensively about his home base. This collection contains such classic stories as The Apostate and South of the Slot as well as extracts from John Barleycorn and The Sea-Wolf. The overlooked 1905 story cycle Tales of the Fish Patrol is included in its entirety. Londons vivid eyewitness report of the Great 1906 Earthquake and Fire - which destroyed forever the old city - stands as a fitting epilogue. Discover a vanished San Francisco in these wonderful stories of Jack London. Selected as one of the 16 BOOKS TO READ IF YOU LOVE SAN FRANCISCO: Most of us know San Francisco as a soft foggy charmfest of a city. But it wasnt always so tame. Jack Londons San Francisco Stories chronicles the tougher annals of SFs pre-earthquake days, and includes Jack Londons firsthand account of the city burning in the wake of the 1906 quake. Either a must-read or must-avoid for anyone waiting for the next shaker. In this collection, you can find the San Francisco that is no longer, but still haunts the back allies. Recommended for: True lovers of San Franciscoand] neighborhood dive bar drinkers. -ANISSE GROSS, BuzzFeed.com A meaty, compactly packaged book. If you dont have these stories, a great intro to a city that was lost in the 1906 quake and fire, by the most famous author born in town. -DON HERRON, the San Francisco Dashiell Hammett Tour This collection by scholar and writer Matthew Asprey finally brings together Londons best writing about the coastal communities of Northern California that he loved so well. -RODGER JACOBS, Journalist, Author, Jack London Scholar
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