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The Faith of Men
Jack London · 1904 · Adventure
Eight tales of the Klondike — gamblers, dreamers and stubborn survivors betting everything on gold, love and the brutal honesty of the North. London at his sharpest, where a man's word is worth more than his life.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 16 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
The World of The Faith of Men — the conceptual web of the collection
Dawson City
A Map of the Tales — the characters grouped story by story
The Characters of the Northland — the standout figures from across the eight tales
Bâtard — "Hell's Spawn," the half-wolf devil-dog
Black Leclère — the wolfish French master of the devil-dog
Scene: the death of Black Leclère, from "Bâtard"
Scene: the renunciation, from "The Story of Jees Uck"
This edition
- Title
- The Faith of Men
- Author
- Jack London (1876–1916)
- First published
- 1904
- Illustrated plates
- 40 original artworks · 16 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 8 · about 46,967 words
- Reading time
- 3 h 8 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- July 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #1096
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