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Jack London

(1876 - 1916)

Jack London was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school.

London draws heavily on his life experiences in his writing. He spent time in the Klondike during the Gold Rush and at various times was an oyster pirate, a seaman, a sealer, and a hobo. His first work was published in 1898. From there he went on to write such American classics as Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.

Genres: Thriller, Science Fiction

Series

Jerry of the Islands
1. Jerry of the Islands (1917)
2. Michael, Brother of Jerry (1917)

Novels

   The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902)
   A Daughter of the Snows (1902)
   The Call of the Wild (1903)
   The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903) (with Anna Strunsky)
   The Sea-Wolf (1904)
   The Game (1905)
   White Fang (1906)
   Before Adam (1907)
   The Iron Heel (1908)
   Martin Eden (1909)
   Burning Daylight (1910)
   Adventure (1911)
   The Scarlet Plague (1912)
   Smoke Bellew (1912)
   The Abysmal Brute (1913)
   John Barleycorn (1913)
   The Valley of the Moon (1913)
   Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914)
   The Little Lady of the Big House (1915)
   The Star Rover (1915)
     aka The Jacket
   Hearts of Three (1918)
   The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963) (with Robert L Fish)

Omnibus

   The Unabridged Jack London (1981)
   White Fang / Call of the Wild (2009)
   Best Loved Children's Classics - Box Set (2020) (with J M Barrie, L Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling)

Collections

   The Son of the Wolf (1900)
   The God of His Fathers (1901)
   Children of the Frost (1902)
   The Faith of Men (1904)
   Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905)
   Moon-Face (1906)
   Love of Life (1907)
   Lost Face (1910)
   South Sea Tales (1911)
   When God Laughs (1911)
   A Son of the Sun (1912)
   The House of Pride (1913)
   The Night-Born (1913)
   The Sea-Wolf and Selected Stories (1913)
   The Strength of the Strong (1914)
   The Turtles of Tasman (1916)
   The Human Drift (1917)
   On the Makaloa Mat (1919)
   The Red One (1919)
   Dutch Courage (1922)
   Jack London's Stories for Boys (1936)
   The Sea Wolf and Other Stories (1940)
   The Science Fiction Stories of Jack London (1976)
   Curious Fragments (1976)
   The Call of the Wild, White Fang (1981)
   To Build a Fire and Other Stories (1986)
   Batard (1987)
   Tales of the Pacific (1989)
   The Collected Jack London (1991)
   Five Great Short Stories (1992)
   Northland Stories (1997)
   Fantastic Tales (1998)
   The Call of the Wild and Other Stories (2020)

Plays

Daughters of the Rich (1971)

Novellas

   A Thousand Deaths (1899)
   Where the Trail Forks (1900)
   The Man with the Gash (1900)
   To Build a Fire (1902)
   All Gold Canyon (1906)
   Goliah (1910)

Non fiction

   The People of the Abyss (1903)
   War of the Classes (1905)
   The Road (1907)
   Revolution and Other Essays (1910)
   The Cruise of the Snark (1911)

Anthologies containing stories by Jack London

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 196 (1967)
Christopher Lee's Archives of Evil (1977)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999)

Short stories

	The Apostate
	At the Rainbow's End [short story]
	Batard [short story]
	The Chinago
	Chun Ah Chun [short story]
	A Daughter of the Aurora [short story]
	The Death of Ligoun
	The Faith of Men [short story]
	The Feathers of the Sun
	The 'Francis Spaight'
	A Ghostly Duel
	The Gold Hunters of the North
	The Great Interrogation [short story]
	The Grilling of Loren Ellery
	Grit of Women [short story]
	The Heathen [short story]
	Husky
	A Hypoborean Brew
	In the Forests of the North
	Jan, the Unrepentant [short story]
	Just Meat
	Keesh, the Son of Keesh
	The Law of Life
	Li Wan, the Fair
	Make Westing
	The Man with the Gash [short story]
	Mapuhi
	The Marriage of Lit-Lit [short story]
	The Master of Mystery
	Mauki [short story]
	The Men of Forty-Mile
	Nam-Bok the Unveracious
	A Nose for the King
	The Priestley Prerogative
	The Scorn of Women [short story]
	The Seed of McCoy [short story]
	Semper Idem
	The Sickness of Lone Chief
	Siwash [short story]
	The Son of the Wolf [short story]
	The Story of Jees Uck [short story]
	The Sunlanders
	Too Much Gold [short story]
	Where the Trail Forks [short story]
	Which Make Men Remember [short story]
	The Wife of a King
	The Wisdom of the Trail [short story]
	Who Believes in Ghosts! (1895)
	In a Far Country [short story] (1899)
	The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone (1899)
	The White Silence [short story] (1899)
	Even Unto Death (1900)
	An Odyssey of the North [short story] (1900)
	To the Man on Trail (1900)
	The God of His Fathers [short story] (1901)
	A Relic of the Pliocene [short story] (1901)
	Diable-A Dog (1902)
	The League of the Old Men (1902)
	To Build a Fire [short story] (1902)
	The Call of the Wild [short story] (1903)
	The One Thousand Dozen [short story] (1903)
	The Shadow and the Flash [short story] (1903)
	Love of Life [short story] (1905)
	A Curious Fragment (1908)
	The Enemy of All the World [short story] (1908)
	The Dream of Debs [short story] (1909)
	Koolau the Leper [short story] (1909)
	A Piece of Steak (1909)
	The Unparalleled Invasion [short story] (1910)
	When the World Was Young [short story] (1910)
	The Mexican [short story] (1911)
	The Strength of the Strong [short story] (1911)
	War [short story] (1911)
	The Scarlet Plague [short story] (1912)
	Flush of Gold [short story] (1916)
	Lost Face [short story] (1916)
	The Passing of Marcus O'Brien [short story] (1916)
	That Spot [short story] (1916)
	Trust [short story] (1916)
	The Wit of Porportuk [short story] (1916)
	The Red One [short story] (1918)
	The Hussy (1919)
	Like Argus of the Ancient Times (1919)
	The Princess (1919)

Books about Jack London

Sailor On Horseback (1938) by Irving Stone
Lone Wolf (1961) by Arthur Calder-Marshall
Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution (1993) by E L Doctorow
Jack London - a Life (1997) by Alex Kershaw

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