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London's bestselling work during his lifetime begins as the hero--nicknamed Burning Daylight--becomes the most successful entrepreneur during the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story ends with the moral of how a good woman can turn a bad man around. To read any of London's work is to be in the presence
of his own biography; few authors have drawn so freely upon their own
experiences for literary material. All his characters, including Burning
Daylight, are Jack London in masquerade or Jack London as he dreamed of
himself. "Burning Daylight" might be called "Miscellaneous
Adventures in the Life of a Superman" - his way of celebrating his
birthday, his record trip with the Yukon Mail, his fight with starvation,
his discovery of Klondike gold, his adventure with the stock market, his
sensational hold up of the New York brokers etc. All of London's leading
characters are of this type supermen, superwomen, dreams of their creator,
half real, half mythical. All of them are blonds even to the golden degree.
They have blue or gray eyes and bodies that are perfect. His men have
muscles that creep and knot like living things and skins like silk. Burning
Daylight has that super-strength "that is the dower of but one human
in millions". |
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