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Songs of a Sourdough
Capítulos (35)
- Dedication 0:00
- Epigraph 0:04
- The Law of the Yukon 0:56
- The Parson’s Son 8:00
- The Spell of the Yukon 12:06
- The Call of the Wild 16:16
- The Lone Trail 19:24
- The Heart of the Sourdough 22:19
- The Three Voices 24:57
- The Pines 26:24
- The Harpy 28:55
- The Lure of Little Voices 31:56
- The Song of the Wage-Slave 34:20
- Grin 38:10
- The Shooting of Dan McGrew 39:37
- The Cremation of Sam McGee 45:39
- My Madonna 51:42
- Unforgotten 52:26
- The Reckoning 53:19
- Quatrains 54:37
- The Men That Don’t Fit In 56:42
- Music in the Bush 58:33
- The Rhyme of the Remittance Man 1:01:57
- The Low-Down White 1:05:13
- The Little Old Log Cabin 1:07:18
- The Younger Son 1:09:21
- The March of the Dead 1:12:47
- “Fighting Mac” 1:16:33
- The Woman and the Angel 1:20:55
- The Rhyme of the Restless Ones 1:23:25
- New Year’s Eve 1:25:45
- Comfort 1:29:59
- Premonition 1:31:19
- The Tramps 1:32:12
- L’Envoi 1:33:27
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Songs of a Sourdough is a collection of poems written in 1907 by Robert W. Service while he was working as a bank teller in Whitehorse, Yukon. The best-known poems are those describing life during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, especially his ballads “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and the “Cremation of Sam McGee.”
While some of Service’s work had previously appeared in newspapers and periodicals, Songs of a Sourdough was his first book. Publishers initially questioned the “moral tone” of the work with its bawdy poems depicting not just the hard lives and isolation of Yukon prospectors but also the drinking, gambling, and prostitution that was prevalent in Dawson City. However, despite these reservations, the book was an immediate success. In Canada, there were ten printings and more than 12,000 copies sold in the first year alone. Dozens of additional printings followed in subsequent years, including editions issued in Britain and the United States.