Telling Tales an Adult Short Story Program

Join us for this five-part series of pleasurable, selected short stories for adults. The stories can be located online or you may obtain a copy at the Reference Desk.
 
The selected story for March is, “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London.

“To Build a Fire" is a short story by American author Jack London. The famous version of this story was published in 1908. London published an earlier and radically different version in 1902. A comparison of the two versions provides a dramatic illustration of the growth of his literary ability. “To Build a Fire” is an adventure story of a man's futile attempt to travel across ten miles of Yukon wilderness in temperatures that drop to seventy-five degrees below zero. This story is considered a prime example of the naturalist movement and of the Man vs. Nature conflict.

Here is the link to the story: “To Build a Fire”