Jack London, 1876-1916
Biographical note
American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of White Fang and Call of the Wild, set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and The Sea Wolf, of the San Francisco Bay area. London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.
Works
Nonfiction and essays
- Autobiographical memoirs
- The People of the Abyss [1903]
- Revolution, and other essays [1910]
- The Cruise of the Snark [1911]
Novels
- The Cruise of the Dazzler [1902]
- A Daughter of the Snows [1902]
- The Call of the Wild [1903]
- The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903, published anonymously, co-authored with Anna Strunsky)
- The Sea-Wolf [1904]
- The Game [1905]
- White Fang [1906]
- The Iron Heel [1908]
- Martin Eden [1909]
- Burning Daylight [1910]
- Adventure [1911]
- The Scarlet Plague [1912]
- A Son of the Sun [1912]
- The Abysmal Brute [1913]
- The Valley of the Moon [1913]
- The Mutiny of the Elsinore [1914]
- The Star Rover [1915, published in England as The Jacket]
- The Little Lady of the Big House [1916]
- Jerry of the Islands [1917]
- Michael, Brother of Jerry [1917]
- Hearts of Three [1920] (novelization of a movie script by Charles Goddard)
- The Assassination Bureau, Ltd [1963] (left half-finished, completed by Robert L. Fish)
Short story collections
- Son of the Wolf [1900]
- Chris Farrington, Able Seaman [1901]
- Children of the Frost [1902]
In the forests of the north -- The law of life -- Nam-bok the unveracious -- The master of mystery -- The sunlanders -- The sickness of lone chief -- Keesh, the son of Keesh -- The death of Ligoun -- Li Wan, the fair -- The league of the old men. - Tales of the Fish Patrol [1906]
White and yellow -- The king of the Greeks -- A raid on the oyster pirates -- The siege of the "Lancashire Queen" -- Charley's coup -- Demetrios Contos -- Yellow handkerchief. - Lost Face
- South Sea Tales [1911]
The house of Mapuhi -- The whale tooth -- Mauki -- "Yah! Yah! Yah!" -- The heathen -- The terrible Solomons -- The inevitable white man -- The seed of McCoy. - The House of Pride and other tales of Hawaii
[1912]
The house of pride -- Koolau the leper -- Good-by, Jack -- Aloha oe -- Chun Ah Chun -- The sheriff of Kona -- Jack London. - Smoke Bellew [1912]
- The Turtles of Tasman [1916]
- On the Makaloa Mat [1919]
- The Road [1907]
- John Barleycorn [1913]
- When God Laughs: and other stories
- Dutch Courage and Other Stories
- Brown Wolf and other Jack London stories : Chosen and
Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews
Brown wolf -- That spot -- Trust -- All gold canyon -- The story of Keesh -- Nam-bok the unveracious -- Yellow handkerchief -- Make westing -- The heathen -- The hobo and the fairy -- "Just meat" -- A nose for the king. - A Collection of Stories
The Human Drift -- Small-Boat Sailing -- Four Horses and a Sailor -- Nothing that Ever Came to Anything -- That Dead Men Rise up Never -- A Classic of the Sea -- A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) -- The Birth Mark (Sketch) - The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
The God of His Fathers -- The Great Interrogation -- Which Make Men Remember -- Siwash -- The Man with the Gash -- Jan, the Unrepentant -- Grit of Women -- Where the Trail Forks -- A Daughter of the Aurora -- At the Rainbow's End -- The Scorn of Women - Love of Life and Other Stories
Short stories
- "Who Believes in Ghosts!" [1895]
- "To the Man on Trail" [1898]
- "The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone" [1899]
- "The White Silence" [1899]
- "A Thousand Deaths" [1899]
- "In a Far Country" [1899]
- "The King of Mazy May" [1899]
- "An Odyssey of the North" [1900]
- "Even unto Death" [1900]
- "The Man With the Gash" [1900]
- "A Relic of the Pliocene" [1901]
- "The God of His Fathers" [1901]
- "The Law of Life" [1901]
- "The Minions of Midas" [1901]
- "Diable—A Dog" [1902, renamed Bâtard in 1904]
- "In the Forests of the North" [1902]
- "Keesh, Son of Keesh" [1902]
- "Moon-Face" [1902]
- "The Death of Ligoun" [1902]
- "To Build a Fire" [1902, revised 1908]
- "The Dominant Primordial Beast" [1903]
- "The Leopard Man's Story" [1903]
- "The Shadow and the Flash" [1903]
- "The One Thousand Dozen" [1903]
- "Negore the Coward" [1904]
- "All Gold Canyon" [1905]
- "Love of Life" [1905]
- "The Sun-Dog Trail" [1905]
- "The Apostate" [1906]
- "Before Adam" [1907]
- "A Curious Fragment" [1908]
- "Aloha Oe" [1908]
- "That Spot" [1908]
- "The Enemy of All the World" [1908]
- "The Heathen" [1908]
- "A Piece of Steak" [1909]
- "Good-by, Jack" [1909]
- "Samuel" [1909]
- "South of the Slot" [1909]
- "The Chinago" [1909]
- "The Dream of Debs" [1909]
- "The Seed of McCoy" [1909]
- Goliah [1910]
- "The Unparalleled Invasion" [1910]
- "Told in the Drooling Ward" [1910]
- "When the World was Young" [1910]
- "The Mexican" [1911]
- "The Strength of the Strong" [1911]
- "War" [1911]
- "The Scarlet Plague" [1912]
- The Red One [1918]
- The Faith of Men
- The Night-Born
- War of the Classes
- "By The Turtles of Tasman"
- "The Madness of John Harned"
Plays
- Theft : A Play In Four Acts [1910]
- Daughters of the Rich: A One Act Play [1915]
- The Acorn-Planter : A California Forest Play [1916]


