The Works of Jack London

Waldstein: 1900. Short stories. 9 pieces set in the Far North: The White Silence - The Son of the Wolf - The Men of Forty Mile - In a Far Country - To the Man on the Trail - The Priestly Prerogative - The Wisdom of the Trail - The Wife of a King - An Odyssey of the North.

Waldstein: 1901. Short stories. 11 pieces set in the Far North: The God of His Fathers - The Great Interrogation - Which Make Men Remember - Siwash - The Man with the Gash - Jan, the Unrepentant - Grit of Women - Where the Trail Forks - A Daughter of the Aurora - At the Rainbow's End - The Scorn of Women.

Waldstein: 1902. Short stories. 10 pieces set in the Far North: In the Forests of the North - The Law of Life - Nam-Bok the Unveracious - The Master of Mystery - The Sunlanders - The Sickness of Lone Chief - Keesh, the Son of Keesh - The Death of Ligoun - Li Wan, the Fair - The League of the Old Men.

Waldstein: 1902. 2nd novel (aimed at juvenile audience).

Waldstein: 1902. 1st novel.

Waldstein: 1903. 3rd novel. A companion volume to #14. One of JL's perfect masterpieces. Style and substance, storytelling and characterisation, action and atmosphere: all mutually exclusive traits of great fiction have seldom been achieved with such success in a single work.

Waldstein: 1903. Non-fiction. First-hand account of the London slums at the turn of the century. Harrowing and at the same time humorous read.

Waldstein: 1904. Short stories. 8 pieces set in the Far North: A Relic of the Pliocene - A Hyperborean Brew - The Faith of Men - Too Much Gold - The One Thousand Dozen - The Marriage of Lit-lit - Bâtard - The Story of Jees Uck.

Waldstein: 1904. 4th novel. Wolf Larsen is ranks up there with Captain Ahab and The Flying Dutchman (Wagner's) for doomed magnificence. Humphrey Van Weyden is a fascinating character as well, a self-portrait with elements of self-loathing, at all events a necessary nemesis of Wolf Larsen. Maud weakens the book considerably, but even so it remains a powerful, haunting experience.

Waldstein: 1905. Non-fiction. Socialist dreams.

Waldstein: 1905. 5th novel. 1st boxing novel. Short and tragic. Should be compared with #31.

Waldstein: 1905. Short stories. 7 pieces inspired JL's teenage adventures as a fish cop: White and Yellow - The King of the Greeks - A Raid on the Oyster Pirates - The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" - Charley's Coup - Demetrios Contos - Yellow Handkerchief.

Waldstein: 1906. Short stories. 8 pieces: Moon-Face - The Leopard Man's Story - Local Color - Amateur Night - The Minions of Midas - The Shadow and the Flash - All Gold Canyon - Planchette

Waldstein: 1906. 6th novel. A companion volume to #6, longer and less perfect, but still a very fine piece of work. The first three chapters form of the finest and scariest stories JL ever wrote.

Waldstein: 1907. 7th novel.

Waldstein: 1907. Short stories. 8 pieces set in the Far North: Love of Life - A Day's Lodging - The White Man's Way - The Story of Keesh - The Unexpected - Brown Wolf - The Sun-Dog Trail - Negore, the Coward.

Waldstein: 1907. Non-fiction. Hoboing as a form of fine art.

Waldstein: 1908. 8th novel. A dystopian classic that remains much underrated. Irving Stone called it "one of the most terrifying and beautiful books ever written".

Waldstein: 1909. 9th novel. The most autobiographical of all JL novels. Great liberties were taken with the facts of his life, but the emotions, raw and powerful, came straight from the depths of JL's personality. Easily one of the pinnacles of American literature, preceeding The Great Gatsby and An American Tragedy by 16 years and surpassing both as exposing the emptiness of social success.

Waldstein: 1910. Short stories. 7 pieces set in the Far North, including JL's most famous story: Lost Face - Trust - To Build a Fire - That Spot - Flush of Gold - The Passing of Marcus O'Brien - The Wit of Porportuk.

Waldstein: 1910. Non-fiction. 13 essays on various subjects: Revolution - The Somnambulists - The Dignity of Dollars - Goliah - The Golden Poppy - The Shrinkage of the Planet - The House Beautiful - The Gold Hunters of the North - Fomá Gordyéeff - These Bones shall Rise Again - The Other Animals - The Yellow Peril - What Life Means to Me.

Waldstein: 1910. 10th novel.

Waldstein: 1911. Short stories. 12 pieces: When God Laughs - The Apostate - A Wicked Woman - Just Meat - Created He Them - The Chinago - Make Westing - Semper Idem - A Nose for the King - The "Francis Spaight" - A Curious Fragment - A Piece of Steak.

Waldstein: 1911. 11th novel.

Waldstein: 1911. Non-fiction. JL sailing the South Seas with his own leaking ketch.

Waldstein: 1911. Short stories. 8 pieces set in the Pacific: The House of Mapuhi - The Whale Tooth - Mauki - "Yah! Yah! Yah!" - The Heathen - The Terrible Solomons - The Inevitable White Man - The Seed of McCoy.

Waldstein: 1912. Short stories. 6 pieces set in the Pacific, plus a bit of autobiography: The House of Pride - Koolau the Leper - Good-bye, Jack - Aloha Oe - Chun Ah Chun - The Sheriff of Kona - Jack London Himself.

Waldstein: 1912. Short stories. 8 pieces set in the South Seas united around the character of David Grief: A Son of the Son - The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn - The Devils of Fuatino - The Jokers of New Gibbon - A Little Account with Swithin Hall - A Goboto Night - The Feathers of the Sun - The Pearls of Parlay.

Waldstein: 1912. Short stories. 12 pieces set in the Far North and united by a common character (sometimes wrongly described as a novel): The Taste of the Meat - The Meat - The Stampede to Squaw Creek - Shorty Dreams - The Man on the Other Bank - The Race for Number Three - The Little Man - The Hanging of Cultus George - The Mistake of Creation - A Flutter in Eggs - The Town-Site of Tra-Lee - Wonder of Woman.

Waldstein: 1913. Short stories. 10 pieces: The Night-Born - The Madness of John Harned - When the World was Young - The Benefit of the Doubt - Winged Blackmail - Bunches of Knuckles - War - Under the Deck Awnings - To Kill a Man - The Mexican.

Waldstein: 1913. 12th novel. 2nd boxing novel. Short and sweet. Should be compared with #11.

Waldstein: 1913. Non-fiction. Alcoholic memoirs - telling title!

Waldstein: 1913. 13th novel.

Waldstein: 1914. Short stories. 7 pieces of great variety, including speculative fiction set in prehistorical times as well as in the future: The Strength of the Strong - South of the Slot - The Unparalleled Invasion - The Enemy of All the World - The Dream of Debs - The Sea-Farmer - Samuel.

Waldstein: 1914. 14th novel.

Waldstein: 1915. 15th novel.

Waldstein: 1915. 16th novel.

Waldstein: 1916. 17th novel.

Waldstein: 1916. Short stories. 8 pieces: By the Turtles of Tasman - The Eternity of Forms - Told in the Drooling Ward - The Hobo and the Fairy - The Prodigal Father - The First Poet - Finis - The End of the Story.

Waldstein: 1917. Short stories and essays, even two plays. Published posthumously. 8 pieces: The Human Drift - Small-Boat Sailing - Four Horses and a Sailor - Nothing that Ever Came to Anything - That Dead Men Rise up Never - A Classic of the Sea - A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) - The Birth Mark (Sketch).

Waldstein: 1970. Eds. King Hendricks and Irving Shepard.

Waldstein: 1979. Ed. Richard Etulain.

Waldstein: 1988. 3 vols. Eds. Earle Labor, Robert Leitz, Milo Shepard.

Waldstein: 1993. 3 vols. Eds. Earle Labor, Robert Leitz, Milo Shepard. Apparently the definitive edition, but extremely scarce adn pricey.