Complete Romance of Jack London

An American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes

Contents

The Abysmal Brute (1911)

The Acorn-Planter (1916)

Adventure (1911)

Before Adam (1907)

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories (1921)

Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories

Burning Daylight (1910)

The Call of the Wild (1903)

Children of the Frost (1902)

The Human Drift (1917)

The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902)

The Cruise of the Snark (1914)

A Daughter of the Snows (1902)

Dutch Courage and Other Stories (1924)

The Faith of Men (1904)

The Game (1905)

The God of His Fathers (1901)

Hearts of Three (1918)

The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii (1912)

The Iron Heel (1908)

The Red One (1918)

Stories of Ships and the Sea (1922)

The Son of the Wolf (1900)

Smoke Bellew (1912)

The Night-Born and Other Stories (1913)

White Fang (1906)

The Abysmal Brute- A breezy tale showing the crookedness of the methods of prize-ring managers specially in fleecing the prize-ring public in betting. The hero is a successful young giant who has been trained by his father in the mountains, and who thinks the game is played square until enlightened by a young woman reporter. Then follows a whirlwind wooing, exposing of the frauds and retirement.

Before Adam- One might expect daring of Jack London, an author who has been gold-miner, sailor, frontiersman, adventurer; whose writing can no more be trite or commonplace than can the narrative of his own life history. But no fictionist ever dreamed of daring to attempt what Jack London has done here--to plunge into the gray mist that shrouds the beginnings of our race; to paint in vivid colors a picture of that alleged and disputed ancestor of ours; to outline his brutal life, his loves, his hates, his first efforts toward human reasoning poiver; to do all this with such wonderful vividness that the skeptic is convinced by the plain truth of it.

Burning Daylight- The story of an adventurer who went to Alaska and laid the foundations of his fortune before the gold hunters arrived. Bringing his fortunes to the States he is cheated out of it by a crowd of money kings, and recovers it only at the muzzle of his gun. He then starts out as a merciless exploiter on his own account. Finally he takes to drinking and becomes a picture of degeneration. About this time he falls in love with his stenographer and wins her heart but not her hand and then--but read the story!

The Call of the Wild- A domesticated and pampered dog's primordial instincts return when events find him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the hey-days of the 19th century Gold Rush.

"White Fang" is part dog, part wolf and all brute, living in the frozennorth; he gradually comes under the spell of man's companionship, andsurrenders all at the last in a fight with a bull dog. Thereafter he isman's loving slave.