Jack London novels and novellas

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• "Martin Eden" (1909) by Jack London

  10 December by Jack London

  This is about a rough, uneducated, young 20-year-old sailor and ex-gang-leader with a lot of drive and years of sailing all over the high seas behind him getting introduced to high society after having rescued the son of a wealthy family from a street brawl.
  He rapidly develops strong ideas (...)

• "The Iron Heel" (1907) - Jack London’s radical statement of faith in the future of socialism

  26 November by Jack London

  The Iron Heel is Jack London’s militant declaration of faith in the final victory of socialism - of the purist variety - over the iniquitous system of capitalism that was an absolute scandal and anathema to him.
  The term “socialist” in 21st-century English is a quite inadequate term to convey the (...)

• "The Call of the Wild" (1903) by Jack London - the full text with e-books

  24 November by Jack London

  Jack London’s masterpiece The Call of the Wild was an instantaneous world-wide success the minute it was published in 1903, selling over a million copies in the first year.
  It has remained one of the most-read works of American literature ever since.
  The author, who had been earning his living (...)

• "White Fang" (1906) by Jack London

  23 November by Jack London

  WHITE FANG The first paragraph of this tale of a wolf-dog coming to terms with civilization will make you want to read on : Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean (...)

• "Burning Daylight" (1910) - Jack London’s last Klondike novel

  22 November by Jack London

  This long (112,00-words) and quite ambitious rags-to-riches (and back) story has a long first part describing the adventures of the central personage Elam Harnish – known by one and all as Burning Daylight because of his habit of routing his comrades out of their blankets with the complaint that (...)