TO BUILD A FIRE (PART ONE) by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 24 October 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And the The Oh, Welcome to another episode of 1001 classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:47.0 | Today's two-part episode, To Build a Fire by Jack London is one of many adventure stories written by Jack London, one of the most successful |
| 0:56.5 | writers from America's Golden Age of Literature between 1895 and approximately 1930. |
| 1:08.0 | London lived the lives he wrote about, which was a great reason for his success. On July 12th, 1897, a 21-year-old Jack London and his sister's husband, Captain Shepard, sailed to join |
| 1:16.6 | the Klondike Gold Rush. |
| 1:19.3 | This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. |
| 1:23.0 | London's time in the harsh Klondike, however, was detrimental to his health. |
| 1:28.0 | Like so many other men who were malnourished in the goldfields, London developed scurvy. His gums became swollen, leading to the |
| 1:35.5 | loss of his forefront teeth. A constant gnawing pain affected his hip and leg muscles, |
| 1:41.7 | and his face was stricken with marks that always |
| 1:44.4 | reminded him of the struggles he faced in the Klondike. Father William Judge |
| 1:48.7 | the Saint of Dawson had a facility in Dawson that provided shelter, food, and any available medicine to London and others. |
| 1:57.0 | His struggles there inspired London's short story to build a fire, in 1992 which many critics assess as his best. |
| 2:07.0 | And now to build a fire part one. |
| 2:12.0 | Day had broken cold and gray. Part 1. |
| 2:13.0 | Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray. |
| 2:18.2 | When the man turned aside from the main Yukon Trail and climbed the high earth bank where a dim and little traveled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland. |
| 2:29.0 | It was a steep bank and he paused for breath at the top excusing the act to himself by looking at his watch. |
| 2:37.5 | It was nine o'clock. |
| 2:39.6 | There was no sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a clear day and yet |
| 2:46.8 | there seemed an intangible pall over the face of things, a subtle gloom that |
| 2:51.9 | made the day dark and that was due to the absence of sun. |
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