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    A Daughter of the Snows
    A Daughter of the Snows
    A Daughter of the Snows
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    A Daughter of the Snows

    By Jack London and Sheba Blake

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    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. 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. Despite the progressive attitude toward women, the novel focuses on the racial superiority of Anglo-Saxons.

    The novel was commissioned by publisher S. S. McClure, who provided London a $125 a month stipend to write it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSheba Blake Publishing
    Release dateApr 13, 2017
    ISBN9783961890224
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    Jack London

    Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876, and was a prolific and successful writer until his death in 1916. During his lifetime he wrote novels, short stories and essays, and is best known for ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’.

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    • 2/5
      Some books by Jack London are enjoyable and classic, this isn't really one of them, but as it was one of the first, you have to let that slide a little bit. Another thing you have to let slide, right from the get go, is the idea of race that was popular in the time the book was published. Be prepared to see the Native peoples written well and with some respect, but have the main characters fill their talk with the superiority of the white race. The book is mostly about a the daughter returning home after an education away, finding her place with her wealthy father, just as it had always been. She is an adventurer, not a prissy character at all. Being a product of Alaska, she thinks nothing of doing what needs to be done, no matter what the outcome is to her physical condition. If you walk through your shoes in the middle of the wilderness, you walk on. Sitting and complaining about it isn't going to get you anywhere. The plot was mostly relationship driven, though there was some action involving rescue and crime. It felt very long to me and sometimes it lost my attention all together. After a while I began to wonder if I would ever get to the end of the book. I did make it to the end. I might try again some time, perhaps as part of a reading group or as a Jack London themed read.
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