THE 151 JACK LONDON STORIES ON THIS SITE

The best of Jack London’s writings were mostly produced during his inspired decade 1899-1908, after the year he had spent in the Klondike region of Canada’s Northwest Territories participating in the great gold rush there.
A majority (63) of the 107 short stories he wrote and published during that extraordinarily creative and prolific period were based on the harsh life and mostly-bitter experiences he had lived through and seen and heard about in that wild land.
With the Klondike (…)

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1. THE WIFE OF A KING (1899) A prospector has left his half-Indian wife to join the flood of gold-seekers in Dawson, and when he fails to return word comes back about his dallying with a casino dancer, the plucky wife sets off for Dawson in the thick of winter to see for herself what is going on. She is taken in hand by several old hands who prepare her for a surprise confrontation with the erring husband at the city’s annual masked ball. (5,700 words).
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Jack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the great gold rush of 1898 there, all feature striking descriptions of the extreme climatic conditions experienced by the participants in that greatest of gold rushes.
We have regrouped here the very best of all of his Klondike tales centred on the struggle for survival in that extraordinarily severe and hostile – and dangerous – clime.
An e-book (…)

Twelve stories of adventure and drama in the harsh climate of the Far North, mostly in the Klondike region of northwestern Canada, where immense gold resources were discovered in 1897.
An e-book is available for downloading below. TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA (1899) Two prospectors engage in an epic hundred-mile dog-sled race to file a claim on a gold-rich stake and, above all, to win the promised hand of a very vivacious young woman (3,300 words).
2. A NORTHLAND (…)

Jack London’s masterpiece, The Call of the Wild was an instantaneous world-wide success the minute it was published in 1903, selling over a million copies in the first year and a phenomenal, unheard-of 6 million copies overall in just a few years, making him the best-known contemporary writer in the world at the time.
It has remained one of the most-read works of American literature ever since.
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Jack London wrote only four stories about boxing, but when he did they were winners!
Not only do these stories get you inside the minds and hearts of the fighters and of their entourages — managers, promoters, betters and (bloodthirsty) spectators — more intensely and grippingly and insightfully than, well, just about anyone else has ever done, but they are all penetrated with a sense of something higher and of great significance, in particular the vital sociological significance of food (…)

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 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 (…)

During the great depression year of 1893 (the worst in the history of the United States until then), when he was only seventeen, Jack London (1876-1916) joined the nation-wide protest movement known as Kelly’s Army to march from San Francisco to Washington with thousands of others.
He spent an entire year on the road, an experience which he summarized in his autobiographical memoir Jack London, by Himself as follows: “I tramped all through the United States, from California to Boston, and (…)

This exceptionally far-sighted vision of the “plague-fall” of civilization as we know it was a brilliant precursor of the end-of-the-world variant of the science-fiction genre that has attracted so much attention in recent years.
The Scarlet Plague was first published in the May-June 1912 issues of the U.K. monthly periodical London Magazine.
It was first published in book form in 1915 with a large number of illustrations by Gordon Grant that are all shown here.
(20,200 words)
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Jack London loved sailing and spent a lot of time boating around not only his beloved Bay of San Francisco, but also and especially the innumerable South Sea islands and Hawaii, which were the subject of a sizable portion of his oeuvre (33 short stories and novelettes, and 3 of his novels).
He was particularly fascinated by the culture-shock both sides experienced as the Western/European/American values and mores and money-power had recently steam-rolled their way across the Pacific in (…)