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A Son of the Sun — New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., May 1912. [SS]
Also published as The Adventures of Captain Grief (New York: The World Publishing Co., 1954).
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"The Prodigal Father" — Woman's World, (Chicago) v. 28 (May 1912), 5, 29, 31-33; The Pall Mall Magazine (London), v. 49 (May 1912), 711-718. [TT]
London received $750 for this story on February 8, 1912. This is yet another of the nine plots London purchased from Sinclair Lewis on October 4, 1910. London paid $5 for this one. The only other in the batch that he used, according to Franklin Walker, was "The Dress Suit Pugilist" which became the novelette The Abysmal Brute. [See entries 130, 131, and 21]
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The Scarlet Plague — Complete in London Magazine, v. 28 (June 1912), 513-540.
Book publication: New York: The Macmillan Co., May 1915. Franklin Walker calls this novel ". . . perhaps the best example in American literature of a genre today very popular, the survival novel." ("Afterword" to The Sea Wolf and Selected Stories. New York: The New American Library, 1964, p. 346.) |
Smoke Bellew — New York: The Century Co., October 1912. [SB]
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"The Captain of the Susan Drew" — The San Francisco Call, The Semi-Monthly Magazine, December 1, 1912, pp. 3-4, 9-13. [CSS]
Reprinted with slight revisions as "Poppy Cargo" in Physical Culture, 66 (July 1931), pp. 17-19, 116-122, where it was billed as "the literary sensation of 1931." In this same magazine, Charmian London states that her husband wrote both "The Captain of the Susan Drew" and "Poppy Cargo" during the Dirigo voyage. This story was reprinted as "The Tar Pot" in the July 26, 1913, edition of the Weekly Tale Teller (London), pp. 1-13. London received $1000 for it on October 13, 1912.
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The Night-Born — New York: The Century Co., February 1913. [NB]
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John Barleycorn — Serialized in The Saturday Evening Post, March 15-May 3, 1913.
Book publication: New York: The Century Co., August 1913. This work is generally classified as an "autobiographical novel." The perceptive Arthur Calder-Marshall writes that Barleycorn ". . . is conceded by the few modern critics who have read it, to be 'a classic of alcoholism.' But in my view it is a literary masterpiece, not merely the greatest book which Jack London wrote, but, seen in its true setting, one of the most poignant documents of our century, a fortuitous work of inhibited and tortured genius." (Bodley Head Jack London, II, 7.) Chapter 5 was reprinted as "My Early Readings"; chapters 21 and 22 as "My Belated Education"; chapter 23 as "My First Efforts to Write"; and chapter 25 as "My Definite Beginnings as a Writer" all in The Century Book of Selections (New York: The Century Co., 1923).
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