Burning Daylight

novel by London

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Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London published in 1910. It is one of his Alaskan novels that dramatizes the appeal of the wilderness. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Klondike gold rush, a period of intense prospecting in the late 1890s. London's works often depict elemental struggles for survival, and Burning Daylight likely explores themes of adaptation and the wild, similar to his other notable Alaskan tales like The Call of the Wild and White Fang.12

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… (1903), White Fang (1906), and Burning Daylight (1910), in which he dramatized in turn atavism, adaptability, and the appeal of the wilderness, are outstanding. His short story “To Build a Fire” (1908), set in the Klondike, is a masterly depiction of humankind’s inability to overcome nature; it was reprinted in…
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… (1903), White Fang (1906), and Burning Daylight (1910), in which he dramatized in turn atavism, adaptability, and the appeal of the wilderness, are outstanding. His short story “To Build a Fire” (1908), set in the Klondike, is a masterly depiction of humankind’s inability to overcome nature; it was reprinted in…
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