Since the publication of The Complete Short Stories, the canon is actually a rather easy and enjoyably assailable body of work. For anyone attempting to write meaningfully, either critically or biographically, or any combination of the two, about this extraordinary man and his always fascinating, sometimes brilliant, works of fiction, it is worth the effort to read all of them.

     One final comment on the usefulness of the present work: some eighty different reference sources are listed within the 140-odd annotations accompanying the 237 entries. These eighty sources represent some of the most significant of all the published biographical and critical works on Jack London to the present day.

     Although this is a bibliography of Jack London's fictional works, all fifty-six of the author's books have been listed separately, by title, publisher, and, when known, date of publication, at the end of the fiction listings. It might be pointed out that all but four of London's books have appeared in foreign editions, most of them in several languages, a few in as many as fifty-eight languages including Esperanto. Some 400 anthologies and collections may be found in thirty-six of these languages, often in many-volumed sets. An excellent view of Jack London's works in foreign translation may be found in Jack London: A Bibliography, compiled by Hensley Woodbridge, John London, and George H. Tweney (Georgetown, Calif.: The Talisman Press, 1966).

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