Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows Annotated written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughter of the Snows 1902 is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale trained mining engineer

Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London Annotated Edition written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DAUGHTER OF THE SNOWS By JACK LONDON (Fine Print Edition) - The story of Frona Welse - The first novel of Jack London 1902

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Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute.

Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows Jack London Annotated written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute.

Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows written by Jack London and published by Soto-verlag. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer. The novel is noteworthy for its strong and self-reliant heroine, one of many who would people his fiction. Her name echoes that of his mother, Flora Wellman, though her inspiration has also been said to include London's friend Anna Strunsky. Modern commentators have criticized the novel for its approval of the main character's view that Anglo-Saxons are racially superior. The novel was commissioned by publisher S. S. McClure, who provided London a $125 a month stipend to write it.

Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows the Annotated Book written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: about race than this first novel by Jack London. Set in northern Canada during the gold rush on the Klondike, it's also a mixed bag of yarns about miners and adventurers on the north frontier. The daughter of the snows title is Frona Welse a spirited and fiercely independent young woman whose main grievance is that she wasn't born male. Being a woman she has to settle for living vicariously through the lives of adventurous men. There's also the nuisance of amorous advances by men who don't live up to her ideals. The novel begins as Frona steps off the boat at Dyea, Alaska, where she grew up at a trading post. A young woman of 20, she has been away for ten years, getting an education in the States. Now returned, she is hardly changed from the free-spirited motherless child who was once friends with the men who trapped and prospected in the Canadian interior. Chilkoot Pass, 1898 With the gold rush in full swing, she crosses the Chilkoot Pass with thousands of others and heads for Dawson City, in the Yukon. There her father, Jacob Welse, seems to own and run every enterprise in the territory. As autumn darkens into sub-arctic winter, there are new arrivals, including Corliss, a tenderfoot mining engineer and Gregory St. Vincent, a journalist and world traveler. There's a lot of talk and little action, however, until the last chapters when miners and prospectors head up river to wait for the spring thaw. As the river ice is breaking up, Frona and the others discover a man in some distress on the other side of the raging torrent. She and two of the men paddle a canoe across to attempt a rescue. Braving the surging waters and dodging ice floes, they bring him back. Almost home free, they are caught in the path of a massive ice jam that breaks loose, flinging them ashore and crushing one of them to death. On the heels of that narrow escape, Frona discovers a miners court in session. They have been called together to hear evidence against St. Vincent, who has been falsely accused of a double murder. Acting as his attorney, she argues persuasively for acquittal, but the jury is set on seeing him hang. Stricken by guilt, he finally admits to watching the killing of the victims without lifting a finger to prevent either death. When the killer, an avenging Indian, materializes at the last moment to confirm St. Vincent's story, he is saved from execution. Corliss and Frona Romance. Frona is a hero worshiper and would only be happy with a man like her larger-than-life father. St. Vincent first clicks with her because he has been an intrepid adventurer who has explored remote regions of the world, finding "life and strife" almost everywhere. She takes to him for his "healthful, optimistic spirit." Expecting love to come to her in a "great white flash," she mistakes a display of the aurora borealis for a sign and agrees to marry him. But St. Vincent wins her utter contempt when he admits to doing nothing to prevent the murders. Having accepted food and lodging from the victims, he was bound by the code of the North to help defend them. Meanwhile, Corliss slowly shows that he's equal to the North. He demonstrates his grit on the ice-strewn and turbulent river by bravely risking his life to go to the aid of a complete stranger. Frona has turned him down once, saying she only wants him as a friend. We aren't told at the end, but maybe he has a chance to win her heart again...

Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows Annotated written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Daughter of the Snows (1902) is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie"[1] who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer.

Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a mediocre story about a woman in the North during the Klondike Gold Rush and her adventures. The reading is moderate in size - around 79k words. The story tells us about Frona Welse, a young woman who comes to see her wealthy and famous father in the North. On her road, she encounters a good but controversial in philosophical views person - Vance Corliss. Later, in the city where she arrives at the start of the novel, she grows fond of another man - a journalist Gregory St Vincent who is rather cowardly in nature. If you expected travels and real adventures - lo and behold, there are only two. The first is about how Frona reaches the city, the second is about her, Vance and another man rowing upriver to save a man. All other events are set in a friendly, totally safe environment in the city or in a village nearby. The novel is strikingly boring for that matter, as not many things happen in general and the plot of the story can be summarized in twoo or three sentences. The only positive side of the story is its good humour and a certain degree of psychology in it. The negative sides revolve around Frona, the main character. Firstly, she is racist, believing that white people are supreme because that`s their racial trait and there`s not much to do about it. Secondly, she is very nationalistic, as she believes that of all whites, only Anglo-Saxons are worthy of fame, riches and glory. Not that they aren`t, but these views are really revolting. I understand that it`s her character trait and it`s fine, but the problem lies in how others perceive it. The others believe Frona is a Valkyrie, an angel, and decide to flutter around her, giving out compliments in her name and praising her superb (like, what?) qualities. Everyone, as if the city has no women, intends on making her their intended, especially Vance and Gregory, whose sufferings we can observe throughout the whole poem. And in the end she chooses a man because... not because of his qualities, but only to spite another. Not a move I would approve of. Frona is also extremely sexist, and we can hear her defending a prostitute one day and saying ''Be a man and accept that you need to die'' to falsely accused Gregory and their rowman the other day. ''Father, take me home, I`m tired'' - says Frona after not being able to defend a falsely accused man she promised to protect to avoid watching him hanged. All these qualities combined make it impossible to believe in the chaos in others` emotions after she arrives - why would someone want to marry or date or just seek the company of such a person? Only for her father`s approval and riches, I guess. Frona, in her eyes, though, is a legend, a hero. This is a rather disappointing work in that and I would refrain from recommending it, although people who want to know about the saloon culture of the American North can find it enjoyable.

Download or read book A Daughter Of The Snow written by Jack London and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's first novel introduces the strong, independent, well-educated heroine that would run through much of his work.

Download or read book The Snow Child written by Eowyn Ivey and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

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Download or read book A Daughter of the Snows Classic Reprint written by Jack London and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Daughter of the Snows We might have been delayed in getting ashore. The first officer laughed, and therein displayed his tact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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