The Portable Jack London

By: Jack London

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Paperback | 1 July 1994 | Edition Number 1

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Essential stories, letters, and writings from the influential American author

Alfred Kazin has aptly remarked that "the greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived." Newsboy, factory "work beast," gang member, hobo, sailor, Klondike argonaut, socialist crusader, war correspondent, utopian farmer, and world-famous adventurer- London is the closest thing America has had to a literary folk hero. His writing itself is concerned with nothing less than the largest questions and the grandest themes- What does it mean to be a human being in the natural world? What debts do human beings owe each other-and to all their fellow creatures?

This collection places London, at last, securely within the American literary pantheon. It includes the complete novel The Call of the Wild; such famous stories as "Love of Life," "To Build a Fire," and "All Gold Canyon"; journalism, political writings, literary criticism, and selected letters.

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Introduction
Chronology of Jack London's Life and Books
Note on the Texts and Selections
Acknowledgments
To the Man on Trail	p. 3
In a Far Country	p. 11
The Law of Life	p. 26
A Relic of the Pliocene	p. 32
Nam-Bok the Unveracious	p. 42
To Build a Fire (1902)	p. 56
Moon-Face	p. 63
Batard	p. 69
Love of Life	p. 82
All Gold Canyon	p. 100
The Apostate	p. 118
To Build a Fire (1908)	p. 136
The Chinago	p. 151
Koolau the Leper	p. 164
Good-by, Jack	p. 178
Mauki	p. 187
The Strength of the Strong	p. 200
Samuel	p. 214
A Piece of Steak	p. 232
The Madness of John Harned	p. 249
The Night-Born	p. 263
War	p. 276
Told in the Drooling Ward	p. 282
The Mexican	p. 291
The Red One	p. 314
The Water Baby	p. 336
The Call of the Wild	p. 347
Typhoon off the Coast of Japan	p. 421
On the Writer's Philosophy of Life	p. 426
First Aid to Rising Authors	p. 430
Review of Frank Norris's The Octopus	p. 438
Excerpts from The People of the Abyss	p. 442
How I Became a Socialist	p. 458
Getting into Print	p. 462
The Terrible and Tragic in Fiction	p. 467
What Life Means to Me	p. 475
Things Alive	p. 483
The Story of an Eye-Witness	p. 486
Reports on the James J. Jeffries-Jack Johnson Championship Fight	p. 492
A Classic of the Sea	p. 503
Introduction to The Cry for Justice	p. 508
Eight Factors of Literary Success	p. 511
To the Editor, San Francisco Bulletin, September 17, 1898	p. 517
To Mabel Applegarth, November 27, 1898	p. 518
To Mabel Applegarth, November 30, 1898	p. 519
To Anna Strunsky, December 21, 1899	p. 524
To Houghton, Mifflin and Co., January 31, 1900	p. 526
To Cloudesley Johns, June 16, 1900	p. 530
To George P. Brett, March 10, 1903	p. 532
To Charmian Kittredge, September 30, 1903	p. 534
To Frederick I. Bamford, May 28, 1905	p. 535
To Cloudesley Johns, September 4, 1905	p. 536
To "Dear Comrades," December 1905	p. 537
To S.S. McClure, April 10, 1906	p. 538
To George Sterling, June 24, 1906	p. 541
To the Editor of Editor Magazine, April 1907	p. 542
To Becky London, October 28, 1908	p. 543
To Richard W. Gilder, December 22, 1908	p. 544
To William E. Walling, November 30, 1909	p. 545
To the Editor, Honolulu Advertiser, January 7, 1910	p. 546
To the "Comrades of the Mexican Revolution," February 4, 1911	p. 548
To Ethan A. Cross, March 17, 1914	p. 549
To Joseph Conrad, June 4, 1915	p. 550
To Ethelda Hesser, September 21, 1915	p. 551
To John R. Lindmark, September 21, 1915	p. 552
To Mary Austin, November 5, 1915	p. 553
To the Members of Local Glen Ellen, Socialist Labor Party, March 7, 1916	p. 555
To Leo B. Mihan, October 24, 1916	p. 556
To Waldo Frank, November 5, 1916	p. 557
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 559
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