The Complete Short Stories of Jack London

Jack London is best known for his stories about Alaska, the Yukon and the great Klondike Gold Rush. Most if not all of us have read The Call of the Wild and White Fang in grade school. The Northern Tales, however, made up only a part of Jack London’s work.

The Complete Short Stories of Jack London contains all of the author’s stories that we could discover — some 210 stories. The collection includes his stories of the North (“To Build a Fire,” “The Race for Number Three,” “Keesh, Son of Keesh,” others), his tales of the Southern Seas (“Koloau the Leper,” “The Water Baby,” “The Terrible Solomons”), social and science fiction (“The Red One,” “The Unparalleled Invasion,” “Goliah”). Believe it or not, Jack London also turned out several romantic stories for women’s magazines (“A Dream Image,” “The Grilling of Loren Ellery”), ghost and horror stories (“Planchette”, “The Eternity of Forms,” “A Thousand Deaths”), and even historical fiction (“In the Time of Prince Charley”). The collection also features a foreword from the editor and a brief biography of the author.

Many literary critics consider him to have been a master of the short story, rather than a novelist, and it is difficult not to agree after perusing this collection. The 210 stories contained within will provide many days of reading pleasure.

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