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SERIES INDEX

A 20-part series with plot description and
commentary on each of Jack London's 197 short
stories and a link to the text of each story.

by Dale L. Walker

Part I:   "I turn out each morning a thousand words of fiction."
  • Introduction
  • Background
Part II:   "The woe of an aspiring genius."
  • Story of a Typhoon Off the Coast of Japan (1893)
  • 'Frisco Kid's Story (1895)
  • And 'Frisco Kid Came Back (1895)
  • Sakaicho, Hona Asi and Hakadaki (1895)
  • A Night's Swim in Yeddo Bay (1895)
  • Who Believes in Ghosts! (1895)
  • One More Unfortunate (1895)
  • O Haru (1897)
  • The Mahatma's Little Joke (1897)
  • Two Gold Bricks (1897)
  • The Strange Experience of a Mysogynist (1897)
Part III:   "Living hand to mouth . . ."
  • A Thousand Deaths (1899)
  • The Plague Ship (1897)
  • A Dream Image (1898)
  • An Old Soldier's Story (1898)
  • The Devil's Dice Box (1898)
  • The Test: A Clondyke Wooing (1898)
  • A Klondike Christmas (1898)
  • The Handsome Cabin Boy (1899)
  • In the Time of Prince Charley (1899)
  • A Lesson in Heraldry (1900)
  • Their Alcove (1900)
  • The Unmasking of a Cad (1911)
  • Pluck and Pertinacity (1899)
  • The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone (1899)
Part IV:   ". . . confusion to the Mounted Police!"
  • To the Man on Trail (1899)
  • The White Silence (1899)
  • The Son of the Wolf (1899)
  • The Men of Forty-Mile (1899)
  • In a Far Country (1899)
Part V:   "There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice."
  • The Priestly Prerogative (1899)
  • The Wife of a King (1899)
  • The Wisdom of the Trail (1899)
  • An Odyssey of the North (1900)
Part VI:   ". . . the eternal mystery of woman."
  • Even Unto Death (1899)
  • Flush of Gold (1908)
  • The Man With the Gash (1900)
  • The King of Mazy May (1905)
  • Chased by the Trail (1907)
  • The Grilling of Loren Ellery (1912)
  • A Daughter of the Aurora (1895)
  • Old Baldy (1899)
  • Bald-Face (1901)
Part VII:   "The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know . . ."
  • At the Rainbow's End (1901)
  • The Proper 'Girlie' (1900)
  • The End of the Chapter (1900)
  • Siwash (1901)
  • Semper Idem (1900)
  • The God of His Fathers (1901)
  • The Lost Poacher (1901)
  • The Scorn of Women (1901)
  • The Minions of Midas (1901)
Part VIII:   "Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins."
  • The Law of Life (1900)
  • Dutch Courage (1900)
  • Grit of Women (1900)
  • Jan, the Unrepentant (1900)
  • Which Make Men Remember (1900)
  • A Relic of the Pliocene (1901)
  • A Hyperborean Brew (1901)
  • Where the Trail Forks (1900)
  • The Great Interrogation (1900)
  • Thanksgiving on Slav Creek (1900)
  • A Northland Miracle (1926)
  • Chris Farrington: Able Seaman (1901)
Part IX:   "And must I . . . who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?"
  • The 'Fuzziness' of Hoockla-Heen (1902)
  • Keesh, the Son of Keesh (1902)
  • Nam-Bok the Liar (1902)
  • Li-Wan the Fair (1902)
  • The Sunlanders (1902)
  • The Master of Mystery (1902)
  • The One Thousand Dozen (1903)
  • The Story of Keesh (1904)
  • In the Forests of the North (1902)
  • To Repel Boarders (1902)
  • An Adventure in the Upper Sea (1902)
  • Local Color (1903)
Part X:   ". . . all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria . . ."
  • To Build a Fire (1902)
  • Up the Slide (1903)
  • Amateur Night (1902)
  • Moon-Face (1902)
  • Diable, A Dog (1902)
  • The Shadow and the Flash (1903)
  • The Death of Ligoun (1902)
  • The Sickness of Lone Chief (1902)
  • The Story of Jees Uck (1902)
  • In Yeddo Bay (1903)
  • White and Yellow (1905)
  • The League of the Old Men (1902)
  • The King of the Greeks (1905)
  • A Raid on the Oyster Pirates (1905)
  • The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" (1905)
Part XI:   "i, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature . . ."
  • The Marriage of Lit-Lit (1903)
  • Charley's Coup (1905)
  • Demetrios Contos (1905)
  • Yellow Handkerchief (1905)
  • The Leopard Man's Story (1903)
  • The Faith of Men (1903)
  • On the Banks of the Sacramento (1904)
  • Love of Life (1905)
  • Too Much Gold (1903)
  • Negore the Coward (1907)
Part XII:   "I ain't never goin' to work again . . . . I'm plum tired out."
  • A Nose for the King (1906)
  • The Sun-Dog Trail (1905)
  • The White Man's Way (1906)
  • The Unexpected (1906)
  • All Gold Cañon (1905)
  • Planchette (1906)
  • Brown Wolf (1906)
  • A Day's Lodging (1907)
  • When God Laughs (1907)
  • The Apostate (1906)
Part XIII:   "Malicious chance was having its laugh at him."
  • Created He Them (1907)
  • A Wicked Woman (1906)
  • The Wit of Porportuk (1906)
  • Morganson's Finish (1907)
  • Just Meat (1907)
  • Goliah (1908)
Part XIV:   ". . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom."
  • The Passing of Marcus O'Brien (1908)
  • The Unparalleled Invasion (1910)
  • The Enemy of All the World (1908)
  • The Dream of Debs (1909)
  • A Curious Fragment (1908)
Part XV:   “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .”
  • To Build a Fire (1908)
  • Make Westing (1908)
  • That Spot (1908)
  • Trust (1908)
  • The House of Pride (1910)
  • The Seed of McCoy (1909)
  • The House of Mapuhi (1909)
  • The Chinago (1909)
  • Lost Face (1908)
  • The Sheriff of Kona (1909)
  • Koolau the Leper (1909)
  • Chun Ah Chun (1910)
Part XVI:   “Some day, all the fools will be dead. . . .”
  • Aloha Oe (1908)
  • Good-by, Jack (1909)
  • The "Francis Spaight" (1911)
  • The Whale Tooth (1909)
  • The Heathen (1909)
  • The Terrible Solomons (1910)
  • Mauki (1909)
  • Yah! Yah! Yah! (1910)
  • The Inevitable White Man (1910)
  • The Strength of the Strong (1911)
Part XVII:   “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!”
  • South of the Slot (1909)
  • The Sea-Farmer (1912)
  • Samuel (1913)
  • A Piece of Steak (1910)
  • The Madness of John Harned (1909)
  • The Night-Born (1911)
  • The Benefit of the Doubt (1910)
  • When the World Was Young (1910)
  • Winged Blackmail (1910)
  • Bunches of Knuckles (1910)
Part XVIII:   “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
  • War (1911)
  • Under the Deck Awnings (1910)
  • To Kill a Man (1910)
  • The Eternity of Forms (1911)
  • Told in a Drooling Ward (1914)
  • The Hobo and the Fairy (1911)
  • The Taste of the Meat (1911)
  • The Meat (1911)
  • The Stampede to Squaw Creek (1911)
  • Shorty Dreams (1911)
  • The Man on the Other Bank (1911)
  • The Race for Number Three (1911)
  • The Little Man (1911)
  • The Hanging of Cultus George (1912)
  • The Mistake of Creation (1912)
  • A Flutter in Eggs (1912)
  • The Town-Site of Tra-Lee (1912)
  • Wonder of Women (1912)
Part XIX:   “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
  • A Son of the Sun (1911)
  • The Proud Goat Aloysius Pankburn (1911)
  • The Devils of Fuatino (1911)
  • The Jokers of New Gibbon (1911)
  • A Little Account Swithin Hall (1911)
  • A Goboto Night (1911)
  • The Pearls of Parlay (1911)
  • The Feathers of the Sun (1912)
  • The Prodigal Father (1912)
  • The Mexican (1911)
  • By the Turtles of Tasman (1911)
  • The End of the Story (1911)
Part XX:   “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
  • The Captain of the Susan Drew (1912)
  • Whose Business Is to Live (1922)
  • The Hussy (1916)
  • The Red One (1918)
  • On the Makaloa Mat (1919)
  • The Tears of Ah Kim (1918)
  • The Bones of Kahekili (1919)
  • Shin Bones (1919)
  • Man of Mine (1917)
  • When Alice Told Her Soul (1918)
  • Like Argus of the Ancient Times (1917)
  • The Princess (1918)
  • The Water Baby (1918)
Copyright © 2008 by Dale L. Walker

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