By Jack London

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Available January 2011! In 1907 Jack London set out for the South Seas with his second wife, Charmian, and the results from that and subsequent voyages was significant. Along with a travelogue and childrens' books, London also produced three volumes of short stories. This edition from Dixon-Price Publishing is the first to collect those stories in a single volume.

“Jack London's Stories of the South Seas have a sense of reality about them which, even if the author were obscure and his goings and comings unknown, would prove that he had been on the ground and had himself taken part in the combats, physical and mental, which he describes.”

—From the MacMillan's ad for the South Sea Tales

“What should critics do with an author who manifestly did not need them, who wrote for the masses but at the same time presented a set of complex personal, cultural, and artistic faces to the world?”

—Jeanne Campbell Reesman in Prospects for the Study of Jack London

“Through Jack London, millions of people around the world have experienced the outer edges of the world, the innermost core of the working-class world, and the complex struggles to survive in either place.”

—The Life of Jack London as Reflected in his Works by Murray Lundberg

TABLE OF CONTENTS

South Sea Tales

• The House of Mapuhi
• The Whale Tooth
• Mauki
• “Yah! Yah! Yah!”
• The Heathen
• The Terrible Solomons
• The Inevitable White Man
• The Seed of McCoy

The House of Pride

• The House of Pride
• Koolau the Leper
• Good-by, Jack
• Aloha Oe
• Chun Ah Chun
• The Sheriff of Kona

On the Makaloa Mat

• On the Makaloa Mat
• The Bones of Kahelili
• When Alice Told Her Soul
• Shin-Bones
• The Water Baby
• The Tears of Ah Kim
• The Kanaka Surf

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Few authors have been as prolific as Jack London who wrote 50 books and more than 1,000 articles and short stories from 1899 until his death in 1916 at age 40. Born to a poor, working-class mother, he found the primal struggle for survival as one of the most prominent themes of his life, much less his literature, but his rough view of the world changed dramatically as Lundberg notes, and the changes can be marked well by his development from the first of the South Sea stories in South Sea Tales to the greater sophistication in presenting complex themes in On the Makaloa Mat, published posthumously.

For those who love tales of the South Seas and island life, though, the three collected books of stories in this volume have an enduring value not only in the quality of the prose, but in the depiction of the sometimes gritty reality of life in paradise.

Title: South Sea Adventures
Author: Jack London
Publisher: Dixon-Price Publishing
Mechanicals: 5.5x8.5 - trade paperback
ISBN-10: 1-929516-26-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-929516-26-1
Price: U.S. $17.99

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