On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year-old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game." Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight...
Jack London gained his first and most lasting fame as the author of tales of the Klondike gold rush. This, his first collection of stories, draws on his experience in the Yukon. The stories tell of gambles w...
A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an anc...
Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique.
This novella explores life following a devastating plague that wipes out most of humanity.
A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California.
Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to f...
Darker Pacific tales, including "Mauki" and "The Terrible Solomans."
Tales of London's days as a hobo.
The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908.
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny...
Martin Eden (1909) is a novel by American author Jack London, about a struggling young writer.
This book is a favorite among writers, who relate to Martin Eden's speculation that when he mailed off a manusc...
An initiation story concerning the taming of a wild dog in the Klondike.
The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of even...
Stories set on the San Francisco Bay of London's youth, including "A Raid on the Oyster Pirates."
A tale of the Klondike Goldrush and the corrupting influence of high stakes capitalism.
A number of lesser-known South Pacific tales.
The best Hawaii stories, and among London's best stories overall, including "Shin Bones" and "The Water Baby."
This outstanding collection includes "The Apostate," "Just Meat," "A Piece of Steak," and "Chinago."
Features the haunting title novella, well worth comparing to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and N...
