Jack London short stories

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• Jack London’s funniest story : "That Spot" (1908)

  12 July 2016 by Jack London

  Jack London is best known for his two adventurous Klondike novel(la)s The Call of the Wild (1905) and White Fang (1909), featuring exceptionally tough and survival-prone dogs not unlike their wild wolf forebearers.
  His great talent for getting into the heart and mind of mankind’s oldest (...)

• "The Hobo and the Fairy" (1911) - the full text of a memorable Hobo story by Jack London

  7 May 2014 by Jack London

  During the great depression year of 1893 (the worst in the history of the United States until then), when he was only seventeen, Jack London (1876-1916) joined the nation-wide protest movement known as Kelly’s Army to march from San Francisco to Washington with thousands of others.
  He spent an (...)

• An early science-fiction story by Jack London: "A Thousand Deaths" (1899)

  4 February 2014 by Jack London

  This tale of a mad scientist’s medical experiments and inventions was the first story for which Jack London received payment from a magazine, an important milestone in the all-too-short career (he died at the age of 40) of this prolific author.
  It is one of only four of his vast output of short (...)

• "Lost Face" (1908) - the full text of Jack London’s best short story

  10 July 2013 by Jack London

  Jack London (1876-1916) is perhaps best remembered for his novels, notably the now-classic Klondike adventure novels The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) that put him on the literary map, and for his biting revolutionary opus Martin Eden (1909).
  But the depth and breadth of his (...)