LONDON, Jack.

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A Son of the Sun. First edition of this collection of eight short stories featuring the adventures of Captain David Grief in the South seas.Written by London after a two-year voyage in the Pacific, A Son of the Sun is "atmospheric, exciting, humorous, action-packed... London presents in David Grief a character who sheds light on the complexities of the writer's own personality. As a world-traveled adventurer, as a self-made man who rose by his own gifts to become one of the best-selling of all American writers... as a darkening and imaginative rancher-entrepreneur, the author seems to have created David Grief as a dream self-extension that celebrates business savvy, freedom, superiority, and strength" (Riedl & Tietze, p. xviii-xxxiii).The stories originally appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1911.

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