Short Stories by Jack London

Jack London (born as John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was the master both of north-country tales and of understatement. He packed so much punch into his stories (often literally) that readers can sense the stories’ environments as they read. While some of his stories haven’t aged well, most are beautiful snapshots of an era long past.

On this page you’ll find details to the following short-story collections by Jack London:

Links to reviews and free downloads are provided when available—as are links for purchase on Amazon (as an Amazon Associate, I might get commission from purchases).

The Son of the Wolf (1900)

  1. “The White Silence” – TEXT
  2. “The Son of the Wolf” – TEXT – My Review
  3. “The Men of Forty Mile” – TEXT
  4. “In a Far Country” – TEXT
  5. “To the Man on the Trail” – TEXT
  6. “The Priestly Prerogative” – TEXT
  7. “The Wisdom of the Trail” – TEXT
  8. “The Wife of a King” – TEXT – My Review
  9. “An Odyssey of the North” – TEXT

Get The Son of the Wolf from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle.
Download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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Chris Farrington, Able Seaman (1901)

  1. “Chris Farrington, Able Seaman” – TEXT
  2. “The Banks of Sacramento” – TEXT / AUDIO

Get Chris Farrington, Able Seaman from Amazon in paperback.
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The God of His Fathers
& Other Stories (1901)

  1. “The God of His Fathers” – TEXT
  2. “The Great Interrogation” – TEXT
  3. “Which Make Men Remember” – TEXT
  4. “Siwash” – TEXT
  5. “The Man with the Gash” – TEXT
  6. “Jan, the Unrepentant” – TEXT
  7. “Grit of Women” – TEXT
  8. “Where the Trail Forks” – TEXT
  9. “A Daughter of the Aurora” – TEXT
  10. “At the Rainbow’s End” – TEXT
  11. “The Scorn of Women” – TEXT

Get The God of His Fathers & Other Stories from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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Children of the Frost (1902)

  1. “In the Forests of the North” – TEXT
  2. “The Law of Life” – TEXT
  3. “Nam-Bok the Unveracious” – TEXT – My Review
  4. “The Master of Mystery” – TEXT
  5. “The Sunlanders” – TEXT
  6. “The Sickness of Lone Chief” – TEXT
  7. “Keesh, the Son of Keesh” – TEXT
  8. “The Death of Ligoun” – TEXT
  9. “Li Wan, the Fair” – TEXT
  10. “The League of the Old Men” – TEXT

Get Children of the Frost from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Press.
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The Faith of Men & Other Stories (1904)

  1. “A Relic of the Pliocene” – TEXT
  2. “A Hyperborean Brew” – TEXT
  3. “The Faith of Men” – TEXT / AUDIO
  4. “Too Much Gold” – TEXT
  5. “The One Thousand Dozen” – TEXT
  6. “The Marriage of Lit-Lit” – TEXT
  7. “Batard” – TEXT
  8. “The Story of Jees Uck” – TEXT

Get from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project or read a digital copy online.
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Tales of the Fish Patrol (1906)

  1. “White and Yellow” – TEXT
  2. “The King and the Greeks” – TEXT
  3. “A Raid on the Oyster Plains” – TEXT
  4. “The Siege of the ‘Lancanshire Queen'” – TEXT
  5. “Charley’s Coup” – TEXT
  6. “Demetrios Contos” – TEXT
  7. “Yellow Handkerchief” – TEXT

Get Tales of the Fish Patrol from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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Moon-Face and Other Stories (1906)

  1. “Moon-face” – TEXT
  2. “The Leopard Man’s Story” – TEXT
  3. “Local Color” – TEXT
  4. “Amateur Night” – TEXT
  5. “The Minions of Midas” – TEXT
  6. “The Shadow and the Flash” – TEXT
  7. “All Gold Canyon” – TEXT
  8. “Planchette” – TEXT

Get Moon Face and Other Stories from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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Love of Life and Other Stories (1907)
My full review

  1. “Love of Life” – TEXT
  2. “A Day’s Lodging” – TEXT
  3. “The White Man’s Way” – TEXT
  4. “The Story of Keesh” – TEXT
  5. “The Unexpected” – TEXT
  6. “Brown Wolf” – TEXT
  7. “The Sun-Dog Trail” – TEXT
  8. “Negore, the Coward” – TEXT

Get Love of Life and Other Stories from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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Lost Face (1910)

  1. “Lost Face” – TEXT
  2. “Trust” – TEXT
  3. “To Build a Fire” – TEXT – My Review
  4. “That Spot” – TEXT
  5. “Flush of Gold” – TEXT
  6. “The Passing of Marcus O’Brien” – TEXT
  7. “The Wit of Porportuk” – TEXT

Get Lost Face from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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South Sea Tales (1911)

  1. “The House of Mapuhi” – TEXT
  2. “The Whale Tooth” – TEXT
  3. “Mauki” – TEXT
  4. “Yah! Yah! Yah!” – TEXT
  5. “The Heathen” – TEXT
  6. “The Terrible Solomons” – TEXT
  7. “The Inevitable White Man” – TEXT
  8. “The Seed of McCoy” – TEXT

Get South Sea Tales from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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When God Laughs
and Other Stories (1911)
My full review

  1. “When God Laughs” – TEXT
  2. “The Apostate” – TEXT
  3. “A Wicked Woman” – TEXT
  4. “Just Meat” – TEXT
  5. “Created He Them” – TEXT
  6. “The Chinago” – TEXT
  7. “Make Westing” – TEXT
  8. “Semper Idem” – TEXT
  9. “A Nose for the King” – TEXT
  10. “The ‘Francis Spaight'” – TEXT
  11. “A Curious Fragment” – TEXT
  12. “A Piece of Steak” – TEXT

Get from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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The House of Pride
& Other Tales of Hawaii (1912)

  1. “The House of Pride” – TEXT
  2. “Koolau the Leper” – TEXT
  3. “Good-bye, Jack” – TEXT
  4. “Aloha Oe” – TEXT
  5. “Chun Ah Chun” – TEXT
  6. “The Sherriff of Kona” – TEXT
  7. “Jack London” – TEXT

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Smoke Bellew (1912)

  1. “The Taste of the Meat” – TEXT
  2. “The Meat” – TEXT
  3. “The Stampede to Squaw Creek” – TEXT
  4. “Shorty Dreams” – TEXT
  5. “The Man on the Other Bank” – TEXT
  6. “The Race for Number Three” – TEXT
  7. “The Little Man” – TEXT
  8. “The Hanging of Cultus George” – TEXT
  9. “The Mistake of Creation” – TEXT
  10. “A Flutter in Eggs” – TEXT
  11. “The Town-site of Tra-Lee” – TEXT
  12. “Wonder of Woman” – TEXT

Get from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, on Kindle, or on Audible. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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A Son of the Sun (1912)

  1. “A Son of the Sun”
  2. “The Proud Goat of Aloysius Plankburn”
  3. “The Devils of Fuatimo”
  4. “The Jokers of New Gibbon”
  5. “A Little Account with Swithin Hall”
  6. “A Gaboto Night”
  7. “The Feathers of the Sun”
  8. “The Pearls of Parlay”

Get from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project. You can also access a digitally scanned copy at Archives.org
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The Night Born (1913)

  1. “The Night-born” – TEXT
  2. “The Madness of John Harned” – TEXT
  3. “When the World Was Young” – TEXT
  4. “The Benefit of the Doubt” – TEXT
  5. “Winged Blackmail” – TEXT
  6. “Bunches of Knuckles” – TEXT
  7. “War” – TEXT
  8. “Under the Deck Awnings” – TEXT
  9. “To Kill a Man” – TEXT
  10. “The Mexican” – TEXT

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The Strength of the Strong (1914)

  1. “The Strength of the Strong” – TEXT
  2. “South of the Slot” – TEXT
  3. “The Unparalleled Invasion” – TEXT
  4. “The Enemy of All the World” – TEXT
  5. “The Dream of Debs” – TEXT
  6. “The Sea-Farmer” – TEXT
  7. “Samuel” – TEXT

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The Turtles of Tasman (1916)

  1. “By the Turtles of Tasman” – TEXT
  2. “The Eternity of Forms” – TEXT
  3. “Told in the Drooling Ward” – TEXT
  4. “The Hobo and the Fairy” – TEXT
  5. “The Prodigal Father” – TEXT
  6. “The First Poet” – TEXT
  7. “Finis” – TEXT
  8. “The End of the Story” – TEXT

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The Human Drift (1917)
My full review

  1. “The Human Drift” – TEXT
  2. “Small-Boat Sailing”
  3. “Four Horses and a Sailor” – TEXT
  4. “Nothing that Ever Came of Anything” – TEXT
  5. “That Dead Men Rise up Never”
  6. “A Classic of the Sea”

    Some editions also include the following:
  7. “A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser)” – TEXT
  8. “The Birth Mark (Sketch)”

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The Red One (1918)

  1. “The Red One” – TEXT / My Review
  2. “The Hussy” – TEXT
  3. “Like Argus of the Ancient Times” – TEXT
  4. “The Princess” – TEXT

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On the Makaloa Mat (1919)

  1. “On the Malaloa Mat” – TEXT
  2. “The Bones of Kahekili” – TEXT
  3. “When Alice Told Her Soul” – TEXT
  4. “Shin-Bones” – TEXT
  5. “The Water Baby” – TEXT
  6. “The Tears of Ah Kim” – TEXT
  7. “The Kanaka Surf” – TEXT

Get from Amazon in paperback, in hardcover, or on Kindle. You can also download a digital copy from The Gutenberg Project.
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Dutch Courage & Other Stories (1922)

  1. “Dutch Courage” – TEXT
  2. “Typhoon off the Coast of Japan” – TEXT
  3. “The Lost Poacher” – TEXT
  4. “The Banks of Sacramento” – TEXT
  5. “Chris Farrington: Able Seaman” – TEXT
  6. “To Repel Boarders” – TEXT
  7. “An Adventure in the Upper Sea” – TEXT
  8. “Bald-Face” – TEXT
  9. “In Yeddo Bay” – TEXT
  10. “Whose Business Is to Live”

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