Jack London’s funniest story: "That Spot" (1908)

Jack London is best known for his two adventurous Klondike tales, the novella The Call of the Wild and his novel White Fang, featuring exceptionally tough and survival-prone dogs not unlike their wild wolf forebears.

His great talent for getting into the heart and mind of mankind’s oldest conquest [1] had already been evident in the many Klondike stories in which dogs and dog-teams are featured, but nowhere was his genius for capturing the individualities and personalities of the canine genre more evident than in this entertaining story about perhaps the most unforgettable one of them all: Spot.

(4,100 words.)

An e-book is available for downloading below.

That Spot (e-book)