JACK LONDON! Acknowledged the world over as the most popular and most read of America's authors. Timeless tales of the sea, of life in the Yukon, of life in the far reaches of unexplored lands and even of life in prehistoric times, all to be found in this wide-rang- ing compendium of the works of London. They are reproduced, in most cases, from the actual turn-of-the-century magazine pages in which they first appeared (along with the original illustrations). The modern-day reader will experience the same sense of excitement and fascination that his forefathers did in reading these dramatic tales of life and adventure. Jack London is an American original! Russ Kingman, bookman, lecturer, and author of A Pictorial Life Of Jack London is acknowledged to be the world's foremost authority on the life and works of Jack London. He is the proprietor of the Jack London Book- store, and World of Jack London Museum in Glen Ellen, California. His research center maintains one of the most extensive collections of material about Jack London. —jacket Before Adam 3 A Relic of the Pliocene 51 Trust 63 Thanksgiving on Slav Creek 73 Housekeeping in the Klondike 81 The Call of the Wild 89 Brown Wolf 135 The Son of the Wolf 147 In the Forests of the North 159 The Wisdom of the Trail 173 The Law of Life 179 The White Silence 185 White Fang 193 Diable—aDog 295 Love of Life 307 The Sea Wolf 325 Planchette 475 The League of the Old Men 505 A Hyperborean Brew 517 Nam-Bok the Unveracious 529 The Death of Ligoun 541 Li Wan the Fair 549 The Marriage of Lit-lit 561 The Lost Poacher 569 The Sunlanders 577 Where the Trail Forks 591 To Build a Fire 599 All Gold Canon 611 Dutch Courage 625 Martin Eden 633
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John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. 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 about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen". London was part of the radical literary group, "The Crowd," in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, workers' rights, and socialism. He wrote several works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, and Before Adam. London died November 22, 1916, in a sleeping porch in a cottage on his ranch. London's ashes were buried on his property, not far from the Wolf House. The grave is marked by a mossy boulder. The buildings and property were later preserved as Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California.
