2. Jack London’s best short stories and novelettes

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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 tales, the novella The Call of the Wild (1905) and his novel White Fang (1909), featuring exceptionally tough and survival-prone dogs not unlike their wild wolf forebears.
  His great talent for getting into the heart and mind of (...)

• Two great boxing stories by Jack London: "A Piece of Steak" (1909) and "The Mexican" (1911)

  7 July 2015 by Jack London

  Jack London wrote only four stories about boxing, but when he did, they were winners!
  Not only do they both get you inside the minds and hearts of the fighters and of their entourages - managers, promoters, betters and bloodthirsty spectators - more intensely and grippingly and insightfully (...)

• "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 (...)

• "The Heathen" (1909) - the full text of an unforgettable South Seas tale by Jack London

  4 March 2014 by Jack London

  Jack London’s South Seas stories have many of the same basic themes as his better-known tales of the Klondike: the suffering and hardships of life in extreme climatic conditions, the innate cruelty and savagery of man, his extraordinary capacity for survival, race relations and the shock of (...)

• 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 (...)