Wolf: The Lives of Jack London

by James L. Haley Coffin

  The God of His Fathers (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1901). Stories included: “The God of His Fathers,” “The Great Interrogation,” “Which Makes 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.”

  Children of the Frost (Macmillan, 1902). Stories included: “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 Old Men.”

  A Daughter of the Snows ( J. B. Lippincott, 1902).

  The Cruise of the Dazzler (Century Co., 1902).

  The Kempton-Wace Letters (with Anna Strunsky, Macmillan, 1903).

  The People of the Abyss (Macmillan, 1903).

  The Call of the Wild (Macmillan, 1903).

  The Faith of Men (Macmillan, 1904). Stories included: “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.”

  The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan, 1904).

  The War of the Classes (Macmillan, 1905). Essays included: “The Class Struggle,” “The Tramp,” “The Scab,” “The Question of the Maximum,” “A Review (Contradictory Teachers),” “Wanted: A New Law of Development,” “How I Became a Socialist.”

  The Game (Macmillan, 1905).

  Tales of the Fish Patrol (Macmillan, 1905). Stories included: “White and Yellow,” “The King of the Crooks,” “A Raid on Oyster Pirates,” “The Siege of the ‘Lancashire Queen,’” “Charley’s Coup,” “Demetrios Contos,” “Yellow Handkerchief.”

  Moon-Face and Other Stories (Macmillan, 1906). Stories included: “Moon-Face: A Story of Mortal Antipathy,” “The Leopard Man’s Story,” “Local Color,” “Amateur Night,” “The Minions of Midas,” “The Shadow and the Flash,” “All Gold Canyon,” “Planchette.”

  White Fang (Macmillan, 1906).

  Scorn of Women (Macmillan, 1906).

  Before Adam (Macmillan, 1907).

  Love of Life and Other Stories (Macmillan, 1907). Stories included: “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.”

  The Road (Macmillan, 1907). Essays included: “Confession,” “Holding Her Down,” “Pictures,” “Pinched,” “The Pen,” “Hoboes That Pass in the Night,” “Road Kids and Gay Cats,” “Two Thousand Stiffs,” “Bulls.”

  The Iron Heel (Macmillan, 1908).

  Martin Eden (Macmillan, 1909).

  Lost Face (Macmillan, 1910). Stories included: “Lost Face,” “Trust,” “To Build a Fire,” “That Spot,” “Flush of Gold,” “The Passing of Marcus O’Brien,” “The Wit of Porportuk.”

  Revolution (Macmillan, 1910). Essays included: “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,” “Foma Gordyéeff,” “These Bones Shall Rise Again,” “The Other Animals,” “The Yellow Peril,” “What Life Means to Me.”

  Burning Daylight (Macmillan, 1910).

  Theft (Macmillan, 1910).

  When God Laughs (Macmillan, 1911). Stories included: “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.”

  Adventure (Macmillan, 1911).

  The Cruise of the “Snark” (Macmillan, 1911).

  South Sea Tales (Macmillan 1911). Stories included: “The House of Mapuhi,” “The Whale Tooth,” “Mauki,” “Yah! Yah! Yah!” “The Heathen,” “The Terrible Solomons,” “The Inevitable White Man,” “The Seed of McCoy.”

  A Son of the Sun (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912). Stories included: “A Son of the Sun,” “The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn,” “The Devils of Fuatino,” “The Jokers of New Gibbon,” “A Little Account with Swithin Hall,” “A Gobotu Night,” “The Feathers of the Sun,” “The Pearls of Parlay.”

  The House of Pride (Macmillan, 1912). Stories included: “The House of Pride,” “Koolay the Leper,” “Good-by Jack!” “Aloha Oe,” “Chum Ah Chun,” “The Sheriff of Kona.”

  Smoke Bellew Tales (Century Co., 1912). Stories included: “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 Mistage of Creation,” “A Flutter in Eggs,” “The Town-site of Tra-lee,” “Wonder of Woman.”

  The Night Born (Century Co., 1913). Stories included: “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.”

  The Abysmal Brute (Century Co., 1913).

  John Barleycorn (Century Co., 1913).

  The Valley of the Moon (Macmillan, 1913).

  The Strength of the Strong (Macmillan, 1914). Stories included: “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.”

  The Mutiny of the Elsinore (Macmillan, 1914).

  The Scarlet Plague (Macmillan, 1915).

  The Star Rover (Macmillan, 1915).

  The Acorn Planter (Macmillan, 1916)

  The Little Lady of the Big House (Macmillan, 1916).

  The Turtles of Tasman (Macmillan, 1916). Stories included: 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

  POSTHUMOUS PUBLICATIONS

  The Human Drift (Macmillan, 1917). Articles included: “The Human Drift,” “Nothing that Ever Came to Anything,” “That Dead Men Rise Up Never,” “Small-Boat Sailing,” “Four Horses and a Sailor,” “A Classic of the Sea,” “A Wicked Woman,” “The Birth Mark.”

  Jerry of the Islands (Macmillan, 1917).

  Michael, Brother of Jerry (Macmillan, 1917).

  The Red One (Macmillan, 1918). Stories included: “The Red One,” “The Hussy,” “Like Argus of the Ancient Times,” “The Princess.”

  On the Makaloa Mat (Macmillan, 1919). Stories included: “On the Makaloa Mat,” “The Bones of Kahekili,” “When Alice Told Her Soul,” “Shin-Bones,” “The Water Baby,” “The Tears of Ah Kim,” “The Kanaka Surf.”

  Hearts of Three (Macmillan, 1920).

  BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING

  PRIMARY SOURCES: PUBLISHED LETTERS & DOCUMENTS

  Bierce, Ambrose (S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, eds). A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003.

  Hendricks, King, and Irving Shepard, eds. Jack London Reports: War Correspondence, Sports Articles, and Miscellaneous Articles. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1970.

  ———. Letters from Jack London. New York: Odyssey Press, 1965.

  Labor, Earle, et. al., eds. The Letters of Jack London. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988 (3 vols.).

  PRIMARY SOURCES: DIARIES, MEMOIRS, INTERVIEWS

  Austin, Mary. Earth Horizon: An Autobiography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932.

  ———. “George Sterling at Carmel.” American Mercury, May 1927.

  ———. “Three at Carmel.” Saturday Review of Literature, September 29, 1928.

  Bamford, Georgia Loring. The Mystery of Jack London. Oakland, CA: Piedmont Press, 1931.

 
Chaney, W. H. Primer of Astrology and Urania. St. Louis: priv. pr., 1890.

  Davis, Charles Belmont, ed. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917.

  Dunn, Robert. World Alive: A Personal Story. New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1956.

  Ford, Alexander Hume. “Jack London in Hawaii, Rambling Reminiscences of the Editor.” Mid-Pacific Magazine, February 1917.

  Genthe, Arnold. As I Remember. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1936.

  Goldman, Emma. Living My Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931.

  Hamilton, Fannie K . “Jack London: An Interview.” The Reader, August 1903.

  Heinold, Johnny. “Heinold’s First Encounter with Jack London, As Told By Himself.” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1916.

  Higgins, John C. “Jack London on the Waterfront.” Westways, January 1934.

  Johnson, Martin. Through the South Seas with Jack London. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1913.

  Larkin, Edgar Lucien. “Recollections of the Late Jack London.” Overland Monthly, May 1917.

  London, Charmian. The Book of Jack London. New York: Century Co., 1921 (2 vols.).

  ———. The Log of the Snark. New York: Macmillan, 1915.

  ———. Our Hawaii. New York: Macmillan, 1917.

  London, Joan. Jack London and His Times. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1929 (repr. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1974).

  Noel, Joseph. Footloose in Arcadia. New York: Carrick & Evans, 1940.

  North, Dick. “Diary of Jack London’s Trip to the Klondike.” Yukon News Magazine, November-December 1966.

  Stevens, Louis. “Jack London As I Knew Him.” Book News, March 1948.

  Walling, Anna Strunsky. “Memories of Jack London.” Greenwich Village Lantern, December 1940.

  Williams, Michael. Catholicism and the Modern Mind. New York: L. MacVeigh, 1928.

  SECONDARY SOURCES: BIBLIOGRAPHIES

  Blanck, Jacob. Bibliography of American Literature, vol. 5. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1969.

  Gaer, Joseph. Jack London: Bibliography and Biographical Information. New York: B. Franklin, 1971.

  Hamilton, David Mike. ed. “The Tools of My Trade”: The Annotated Books in Jack London’s Library. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.

  Sherman, Joan Rita. Jack London: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K . Hall, 1977.

  Walker, Dale L., and James E. Sisson III. The Fiction of Jack London: A Chronological Bibliography. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1972.

  Woodbridge, Hensley C., John London, and George H. Tweney. Jack London: A Bibliography. Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1966.

  SECONDARY SOURCES: BIOGRAPHIES

  Barltrop, Robert. Jack London, the Man, the Writer, the Rebel. London: Pluto Press, 1976.

  Benediktsson, Thomas E. George Sterling. Boston: Twayne, 1980.

  Calder-Marshall, Arthur. Lone Wolf: The Story of Jack London. New York: Duell, Sloane & Pearce, 1962.

  Day, A. Grove. Jack London in the South Seas. New York: Four Winds Press, 1971.

  Fenady, Andrew J. The Summer of Jack London. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1997 (repr).

  Fink, Augusta. I-Mary: A Biography of Mary Austin. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1983.

  Foner, Philip S. Jack London / American Rebel. New York: Citadel, 1947.

  Franchere, Ruth. Jack London: The Pursuit of a Dream. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1962 (repr.).

  Garst, Doris Shannon. Jack London: Magnet for Adventure. New York: J. Messner, 1944.

  Johnston, Carolyn. Jack London: An American Radical? Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1984.

  Kershaw, Alex. Jack London: A Life. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

  Kingman, Russ. A Pictorial Biography of Jack London. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.

  Labor, Earle. Jack London. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974.

  Lane, Frederick A. The Greatest Adventure: A Story of Jack London. New York: Aladdin Books American Heritage Series, 1954.

  Lane, Rose Wilder. He Was a Man. New York: Harper, 1925.

  Maule, Harry E., and Melville H. Cain. The Main from Main Street. New York: Random House, 1953.

  Mood, Fulmer. “An Astrologer from Down East.” New England Quarterly, October 1932.

  O’Connor, Richard. Jack London: A Biography. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1964.

  Payne, Edward B. The Soul of Jack London. Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1933.

  Rather, Lois. Jack London, 1905. Oakland, CA: Rather Press, 1974.

  Sinclair, Andrew. Jack: A Biography of Jack London. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

  Stasz, Clarice. American Dreamers: Charmian and Jack London. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

  ———. Jack London’s Women. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.

  Stone, Irving. Irving Stone’s Jack London. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1977.

  ———. Sailor on Horseback: The Biography of Jack London. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938.

  St. Johns, Adela Rogers. Final Verdict. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1962.

  Walcutt, Charles Child. Jack London. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1966.

  Walker, Franklin. Jack London and the Klondike. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1972.

  SECONDARY SOURCES: CRITICISM

  Auerbach, Jonathan. Male Call: Becoming Jack London. Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 1996.

  Bashford, Herbert. “The Literary Development of the Pacific Coast.” Atlantic Monthly, July 1903.

  Baskett, Sam S. “A Brace for London Criticism: An Essay Review.” Modern Fiction Studies, Spring 1976.

  Doctorow, E. L. Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution. New York: Random House, 1993.

  Foner, Philip S. The Social Writings of Jack London. New York: Citadel, 1987.

  Geismar, Maxwell. Rebels and Ancestors: The American Novel, 1890-1915. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.

  Hawthorne, Julian. “Jack London in Literature.” Los Angeles Examiner, January 12, 1905.

  Hedrick, Joan D. Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

  Hendricks, King. Jack London: Master Craftsman of the Short Story. Logan: Utah State University Faculty Association, 1966.

  Hodson, Sara S., and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. eds. Jack London: One Hundred Years a Writer. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2002.

  James, George Wharton. “The Influence of California Upon Literature.” National Magazine, April 1912.

  Labor, Earle. “Jack London, 1876-1976.” Modern Fiction Studies, Spring 1976.

  Lynn, Kenneth S. The Dream of Success, A Study of the Modern American Imagination. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1955.

  McClintock, James I. “Jack London’s Use of Carl Jung’s Psychology of the Unconscious.” American Literature, November 1970.

  Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. Jack London’s Racial Lives: A Critical Biography. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009.

  Walker, Dale. “Jack London (1876-1916).” American Literary Realism, Fall 1967.

  Walker, Franklin. “Jack London’s Use of Sinclair Lewis Plots, Together with a Printing of Three of the Plots.” Huntington Library Quarterly, November 1953.

  Watson, Charles N. “Jack London’s Yokohama Swim and His First Tall Tale.” Studies in American Humor, October 1976.

  ———. The Novels of Jack London. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

  SECONDARY SOURCES: MISCELLANEOUS: BOOKS

  Boylan, James R. Revolutionary Lives: Anna Strunsky and William English Walling. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

  Etulain, Richard W. ed. Jack London on the Road. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1979.

  James, George Wharton. California Scrapbook. Los Angeles: N. A. Kovach, 1945.

  Markham, Edwin. California the Wonderful. New York: Hearst’s International Library, 1914.

  Martin, Stoddard. Cal
ifornia Writers: Jack London, John Steinbeck, The Tough Guys. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.