2. Jack London’s best short stories and novelettes

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• "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 (...)

• A selection of South Seas/Hawaii stories by Jack London

  2 November 2016 by Jack London

  Jack London loved sailing and spent a lot of time boating around not only his beloved Bay of San Francisco, but also and especially the innumerable South Sea islands and Hawaii, which were the subject of a sizeable portion of his oeuvre (33 short stories and novelettes, and 4 of his novels). (...)

• Eleven of Jack London’s best Far North stories

  31 October 2016 by Jack London

  The best of Jack London’s writings were mostly produced during his inspired decade 1899-1908, after the year he had spent in the Klondike region of Canada’s Northwest Territories participating in the great gold rush there.
  A majority (63) of the 107 short stories he wrote and published during (...)

• Survival in the Klondike – 10 great stories by Jack London

  16 July 2016 by Jack London

  Jack London’s stories of life and adventure in the Far North, mostly set in the Klondike region of the Northwest Territories in Canada during the great gold rush of 1898 there, all feature striking descriptions of the extreme climatic conditions experienced by the participants in that greatest (...)