TO BUILD A FIRE-生火: 【内容概要】
中文版简介
《生火》是著名美国作家，捷克伦敦的著名短篇故事之一。
描写的是一个人独自在寒冷中行走，最终抵御不住严寒而冻死的故事。
《生火》是一篇经典的自然主义作品。故事中的人藐视自然，却被自然挫败。
叙述在大雪纷飞的寒冬之际，一只狗跟着一位旅人，徒步横越阿拉斯加。
故事主要是想告诉读者这位旅人之所以能让狗乖乖地跟在他身边，
完全是因为他身上有可以用来生火的火柴，可以提供这只狗在冰天雪地所需要的温暖，并不是因为狗对主人的忠心。
半个月后的一个雪夜里，这只狗悄悄的离开了这位旅人，原因是旅人不小心将身上的火柴弄湿，不能再像之前一样生火，让它度过漫漫长夜。
杰克伦敦在故事的最后写道：“这只狗在严冬的夜空下低吠，还是未见主人有生火的动静，
他觉的眼前的这位主人，似乎已是无法再满足它所要的温暖，只好夹着尾巴，低着头离开，在月光下继续寻找另一个可能给予它温暖火光的主人。”
英文版简介
To Build A Fire and Other Storiesis the most comprehensive and wide-ranging collection
of Jack London-s short stories available in paperback. This superb volume brings together
twenty-five of London-s finest, including a dozen of his great Klondike stories, vivid tales of the
Far North were rugged individuals, such as the Malemute Kid face the violence of man and nature
during the Gold Rush Days. Also included are short masterpieces from his later writing, plus
six stories unavailable in any other paperback edition. Here, along with London-s famous wilderness
adventures and fireband desperadoes, are portraits of the working man, the immigrant, and the exotic
outcast: characters representing the entire span of the author-s prolific imaginative career, in tales that
have been acclaimed throughout the world as some of the most thrilling short stories ever written.