Jack London - A Fogueira e Outros Contos

In the nine short stories that make up this book, Jack London's unsettling genius imprints its incomparable mark: that of an expert storyteller, adventurer and poet.

In each of his short texts, London frees human beings from the shackles of civility, unveils their raw purity and animal instinct, drawing us into the most recondite manifestations of consciousness. The first author to describe boxing in literature, London recounts in “Um Bife" the atmosphere of calculated violence in the ring, illustrating in the fight between King and Sandel the eternal struggle between old age and youth. “Burlado” recounts a man's desperate plan in the face of imminent torture. “A Fogueira”, considered one of the highlights of his vast oeuvre and adapted for the cinema in 1969, with narration by Orson Welles, reveals the saga of a man who sets out on a trail in Alaska accompanied only by a dog, defying his body and common sense in an arduous struggle to survive inclement nature.