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Jack London (1876-1916), was an American leader and a lead the way in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he started struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He ongoing just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in well loved magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for fleeting fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his legendary works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).
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To start with, this is NOT “South Sea Tales.” The original collection of Jack London fleeting tales impact that title is a collection of 8 tales as far as I have been able to determine, and only some of persons appear in this collection. Publishers have been misleading readers by putting out a wide variety of editions that contain SOME tales from South Sea Tales, and using the same original title lacking indicating that it is not the original. To give the present publisher credit, if you check inside to read the table of contents, it contains 10 tales, only four of which are from South Sea Tales, but the book take in can mislead a purchaser who is not careful (Amazon, at least, gives you the option of checking inside).
Having said that, it represents some of the lesser writing by Jack London. It is not at the level of his writing about the Yukon. If you are a Jack London fan, you might want to read it. Otherwise save your money. I might have agreed it three stars if the publisher had used an honest title, but I am irked by publishers who mislead purchasers (another problem has been publishers who change a title on a book, so you reflect you are buying something new and end up with something you have already read).
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
It’s a bring shame on Jack London’s “South Sea Tales” (sometimes referred to as “Hawai’ian Tales”) are not more respected, both by the masses and by literary circles. London’s tales here are equally as engaging as his better-known Yukon tales (“White Fang,” etc.). And the fact that the setting is so drastically different from the snowy Northern Hemisphere of his additional tales represents how versatile of a writer he was. It is right, there is not a lot of character differentiation from tale to tale, which may annoy readers looking for a veritable “collection” of tales and yet please persons additional readers looking for tales that are connected and read more like chapters of a novel. Nonetheless, Hawai’i is a United State and yet, fiction from this region that is taught on an literary, American Literature collegiate level is rare. That is a bring shame on, because this collection shows that the region is intriguing, treacherous, and gorgeous, all at the same time (and what more can you want out of a fleeting tale collection)!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
London does not disappoint in this collection. His observations are as sound today as they were in his time. It was fascinating to see that London even experimented with science fiction in his tale the Red One.
Sean O’Reilly
Editor-at-large
Travelers’ Tales
Editor of 30 Days in the South Pacific
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Eight excellent tales by Jack London, about the people and places of the south Pacific in 1908. Also a excellent long introduction by A. Orchard Day which should (like all too many “introductions”) only be read *after* reading the tales.
Most of the people in these tales are, of course, either victims or perpetrators (or both) of one of persons long painful Western exploitations of a less civilized (“less civilized”) part of the world. London knows that that’s what’s going on, and he writes with sympathy for all concerned, and lacking the more self-conscious bemoaning that would be expected of a XXIst century writer. To the modern reader, then, he can sometimes seem cold-blooded, but seldom disturbingly so.
The prose is fine and spare most of the time, and never gets in the way of the tale. The places and the tales are memorable. There is not a fantastic variety of character and setting; the eight tales together could nearly be a single novel. His voyage on the Snark (which inspired these tales) clearly left him with a strong and single impression of this place and these people, and he conveys that impression skillfully along to us.
Certainly worth reading.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
One star is not because the Jack London tales in this book are not wonderful. It is because this book is not South Sea Tales by Jack London, which I first got from my grandfather’s bookshelf and was one of the most memorable reads from my youth. It is a collection of sea tales, including four from South Sea Tales, but I have establish a copy of the original tales at Barnes and Noble. One might guess that some of the tales were dropped because, like Huck Finn, they use dialogue and espouse attitudes that we now know better than to live. The tales are still fantastic and do not deserve to become un-tales. This collection is misnamed and misleading.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5