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Title: Spell of the Yukon by Robert Service ISBN: 0-399-15011-0 Publisher: Dodd Mead Pub. Date: June, 1990 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: American Poetry Classic
Comment: This is a classic. PERIOD! Do yourself a favor and buy this little book so that you can memorize "The Creamation of Sam McGee" if nothing else. You will always have a way to keep small children spellbound with this captivating verse.
This, along with Service's other poems have a magical way of transforming us to the Yukon. You will feel as though you are there!
Rating: 5
Summary: Wild Prose, Rough Living, Tender Heart
Comment: Robert Service wrote in the golden years of the Klondike -- of the rough and ready men, and women just as tough. No-one in Robert's world (real or imagined) minced words or had any self-consciousness about them. It was live and let live and sometimes kill or be killed.
Reading his poems transports us back to that frozen place in nature when it was literally every man and every woman for him/herself, yet Robert conveys to us not only a sensitivity (in his poem extolling the simple light switch -- something quite novel in those times, especially in the Klondike), but the beauties he saw in the others -- gathered around the village's first "grammyphone", hearing the voice of "canned man" coming from it -- some savages taking to their canoes because it seems demonic, yet others equally savage, enraptured by this miracle of sound.
Cold cabins, with hoarfrost clinging to the inside rafters -- unwashed masses in itchy long-johns struggling out of bed on an arctic day -- and the beauty of the lilies ("Unforgotten") living side by side with a trapper's two-timing woman getting her just desserts (over "a black fox skin") -- Robert Service touches the heart and soul of the rough and raw Klondike in the early 1900's, and shows us the soul's emotions and colors from inky black to pure gold.
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Title: Collected Poems of Robert Service by Robert W. Service ISBN: 0399150153 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Best Tales of the Yukon: Including the Classic "Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "the Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service, Tam Mossman ISBN: 0762414596 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Best of Robert Service by Robert Service ISBN: 0399550089 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Gunga Din and Other Favorite Poems by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0486264718 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Collected Stories by Rudyard Kipling ISBN: 0679435921 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 18 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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