Jack London’s best short stories and novelettes

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• "The Sunlanders" (1902) and other stories of the Far North by Jack London

  1 January by Jack London

  Twelve stories of adventure and drama in the harsh climate of the Far North, mostly in the Klondike region of northwestern Canada, where immense gold resources were discovered in 1897.
  TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. A Daughter of the Aurora (1899) Two prospectors engage in an epic hundred-mile dog-sled (...)

• "The Game" (1905) - a boxing story by Jack London

  3 December 2018 by Jack London

  Joe and Genevieve are shopping for rugs and things for their new life together when they will be married in a week’s time. But first Joe, who is a local celebrity because of his prowess at the Game – boxing – has one last fight to get through before settling down with Genevieve to his new life. (...)

• "By the Turtles of Tasman" (1911) and other stories by Jack London

  28 November 2018 by Jack London

  A selection of tales by the author of Lost Face, The Hobo and the Fairy, The Heathen, A Piece of Steak and so many other masterful short stories and novelettes. TABLE OF CONTENTS
  1. Plague Ship (1897) – on a grossly-overcrowded passenger ship, a deadly epidemic of yellow fever breaks out that (...)

• "The Shadow and the Flash" (1903): an early science-fiction story by Jack London

  25 November 2018 by Jack London

  Paul and Lloyd are very similar, although one is dark and the other is blond. They have been lifelong friends but also determined rivals in just about everything, and when Dora comes along the competition to outdo the other in everything starts getting really out of hand, as both have become (...)

• Jack London’s two war stories

  4 December 2016 by Jack London

  Although Jack London was an experienced war correspondent, having covered the Japan-Russia conflict in 1904 and the Mexican Revolution in 1912, only 2 of his 199 stories and novelettes have soldiers and war as a central theme.
  But one of them is an absolute masterpiece that you will have (...)