Burning Daylight

Elam Harnish, known on the Klondike as Burning Daylight, is its hardest-driving man: prospector, dog-musher and poker player. He strikes it rich and carries the same ruthlessness into San Francisco finance, breaking the syndicate that tries to break him first. Wealth and revenge leave him hollow, until Dede Mason, a stenographer in his own office who won’t be bought, draws him out of the city’s boardrooms toward a small ranch in the Sonoma valley.

Jack London published the novel in 1910 in two halves: a Klondike section drawn from his own 1897 gold-rush years, and a California section that reflects the ranching life he had by then taken up at Glen Ellen. Its account of cornering a market, and being cornered in turn, draws on financial panics London had watched firsthand.

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