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.
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by Dale L. Walker
Part I: "I turn out each morning a thousand words of fiction." |
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Part II: "The woe of an aspiring genius." |
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Part III: "Living hand to mouth . . ." |
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Part IV: ". . . confusion to the Mounted Police!" |
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Part V: "There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice." |
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Part VI: ". . . the eternal mystery of woman." |
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Part VII: "The way of a man with a maid may be too wonderful to know . . ." |
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Part VIII: "Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins." |
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Part IX: "And must I . . . who am weary, travel always your trail until I die?" |
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Part X: ". . . all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria . . ." |
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Part XI: "i, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature . . ." |
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Part XII: "I ain't never goin' to work again . . . . I'm plum tired out." |
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Part XIII: "Malicious chance was having its laugh at him." |
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Part XIV: ". . . in the stiff, dead fingers, the petition of his slaves who toiled in Hell's Bottom." |
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Part XV: “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” |
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Part XVI: “Some day, all the fools will be dead. . . .” |
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Part XVII: “Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” |
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Part XVIII: “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....” |
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Part XIX: “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” |
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Part XX: “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.” |
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Copyright © 2008 by Dale L. Walker
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Read: The Complete Short Stories of Jack London
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