The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781618953728)

Jack London was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.

Western writer and historian Dale L. Walker writes:

"London's true métier was the short story .... London's true genius lay in the short form, 7,500 words and under, where the flood of images in his teeming brain and the innate power of his narrative gift were at once constrained and freed..."

London's "strength of utterance" is at its height in his stories, such as The God of His Fathers, and they are painstakingly well-constructed... (Wikipedia)