The 7th Book in Series V of our "Little Books"
 
This volume contains five examples of London's excellent short fiction.
 
From the Foreword by the editor, John DeChancie
 
Jack London, born John Griffith Chaney, was an American novelist, short story writer, journalist, and political activist. He came into the world January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California. His mother, temporarily mentally ill due to a botched suicide attempt, gave him away, but took him back later on when she had recovered and was married to John London.
 
Thus began the tumultuous life of one of the most intense and fiercely focused American writers of the turn of the 19th century. He was vociferously political, a committed socialist and animal rights activist. Both advocacies were in the warp and woof (no pun intended) of his fiction, attested to by The Call of the Wild and White Fang. Not just dogs, however, were to be treated humanely; he believed that people deserved that right as well.