Jack London

"I've never written a line that I'd be ashamed for my young daughters to read, and I never shall write such a line " Thus Jack London, well along in his career. And thus almost any collection of his adventure stories is acceptable to young readers as well as to their elders. So, in sorting over the few manuscripts still unpublished in book form, while most of them were written primarily for boys and girls, I do not hesitate to include as appropriate a tale such as "Whose Business Is to Live." Number two of the present group, "Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan," is the first story ever written by Jack London for publication

Large Print Edition - SHORT STORY COLLECTIONTHE GOD OF HIS FATHERSTHE GREAT INTERROGATIONWHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBERSIWASHTHE MAN WITH THE GASHJAN, THE UNREPENTANTGRIT OF WOMENWHERE THE TRAIL FORKSA DAUGHTER OF THE AURORAAT THE RAINBOW'S ENDTHE SCORN OF WOMENLOST FACETRUSTTO BUILD A FIREFLUSH OF GOLDTHE PASSING OF MARCUS O'BRIENTHE WIT OF PORPORTUKIN THE FORESTS OF THE NORTHTHE LAW OF LIFENAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUSTHE MASTER OF MYSTERYTHE SUNLANDERSTHE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEFKEESH, THE SON OF KEESHTHE DEATH OF LIGOUNLI WAN, THE FAIRTHE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MENTHE WHITE SILENCETHE SON OF THE WOLFTHE MEN OF FORTY MILEIN A FAR COUNTRYTO THE MAN ON TRAILTHE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVETHE WISDOM OF THE TRAILTHE WIFE OF A KINGAN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTHBROWN WOLFTHAT SPOTALL GOLD CANYONTHE STORY OF KEESHBALD-FACETHE NIGHT-BORN

The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith is one of the few survivors of the pre-plague era left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip. His grandsons are "savage" and live as primeval hunter-gatherers in a heavily depopulated world. Their intellect is limited, as are their language abilities. Edwin asks Smith, whom they call "Granser", to tell them of the disease alternately referred to as scarlet plague, scarlet death, or red death.

STORIES OF THE FAR NORTH By JACK LONDON - (Fine Print Edition)SHORT STORY COLLECTIONTHE GOD OF HIS FATHERSTHE GREAT INTERROGATIONWHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBERSIWASHTHE MAN WITH THE GASHJAN, THE UNREPENTANTGRIT OF WOMENWHERE THE TRAIL FORKSA DAUGHTER OF THE AURORAAT THE RAINBOW'S ENDTHE SCORN OF WOMENLOST FACETRUSTTO BUILD A FIREFLUSH OF GOLDTHE PASSING OF MARCUS O'BRIENTHE WIT OF PORPORTUKIN THE FORESTS OF THE NORTHTHE LAW OF LIFENAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUSTHE MASTER OF MYSTERYTHE SUNLANDERSTHE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEFKEESH, THE SON OF KEESHTHE DEATH OF LIGOUNLI WAN, THE FAIRTHE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MENTHE WHITE SILENCETHE SON OF THE WOLFTHE MEN OF FORTY MILEIN A FAR COUNTRYTO THE MAN ON TRAILTHE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVETHE WISDOM OF THE TRAILTHE WIFE OF A KINGAN ODYSSEY OF THE NORTHBROWN WOLFTHAT SPOTALL GOLD CANYONTHE STORY OF KEESHBALD-FACETHE NIGHT-BORN

The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for the scenes in which the proletarian hero enjoys fellowship with the artists' colony in Carmel, and he settles in the Valley of the Moon.

The Strength of the Strong includes "The Dream of Debs," "South of the Slot," and "The Unparalleled Invasion." Jack London (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a huge financial success from writing.

In the summer of 1897, Jack London joined the Klondike gold rush. From that seminal experience emerged these gripping, inimitable wilderness tales, which have endured as some of London's best and most defining work. With remarkable insight and unflinching realism, London describes the punishing adversity that awaited men in the brutal, frozen expanses of the Yukon, and the extreme tactics these adventurers and travelers adopted to survive...

Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique.