Although Jack London was an experienced war correspondent, having covered the Japan-Russia conflict in 1904 and the Mexican Revolution in 1912, only 2 of his 199 stories and novelettes have soldiers and war as a central theme.
But one of them is an absolute masterpiece that you will have trouble ever forgetting!
1. An Old Soldier’s Story (1899) A somewhat comic albeit really quite dramatic tale about war-time recruitment difficulties that apparently had actually been experienced by the (...)
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THE 151 JACK LONDON STORIES ON THIS SITE
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Jack London’s two war stories
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A selection of South Seas stories by Jack London
2 November 2016, by Jack LondonJack 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 sizeable 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 (...) -
Twelve of Jack London’s best Far North stories
31 October 2016, by Jack LondonThe 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 (...) -
Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London
16 July 2016, by Jack LondonJack 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 (...) -
Jack London’s funniest story: "That Spot" (1908)
12 July 2016, by Jack LondonJack 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 (...) -
"The Hobo and the Fairy" (1911) - a memorable Hobo story by Jack London
7 May 2014, by Jack LondonDuring 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, (...) -
INDEX OF THE 151 JACK LONDON STORIES ON THIS SITE, in alphabetical order
1 January 2014, by RayA DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA A DAY’S LODGING A DREAM IMAGE A FLUTTER IN EGGS A KLONDIKE CHRISTMAS A NORTHLAND MIRACLE A PIECE OF STEAK A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE A THOUSAND DEATHS ALL GOLD CANYON ALOHA OE AN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTH AN OLD SOLDIER’S STORY AT THE RAINBOW’S END BALD-FACE BEFORE ADAM BROWN WOLF BUNCHES OF KNUCKLES BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN CHARLEY’S COUP CHASED BY THE TRAIL CHRIS FARRINGTON, ABLE SEAMAN CHUN AH CHUN CREATED HE THEM DEMETRIOS CONTOS DIABLE – A DOG DUTCH COURAGE FLUSH (...)