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Tables of Contents for The Portable Jack London
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
Chronology of Jack London's Life and Books
xxi
Note on the Texts and Selections
xxvii
Acknowledgments
xxxvii
SELECTED STORIES
To the Man on Trail
3
8
In a Far Country
11
15
The Law of Life
26
6
A Relic of the Pliocene
32
10
Nam-Bok the Unveracious
42
14
To Build a Fire (1902)
56
7
Moon-Face
63
6
Batard
69
13
Love of Life
82
18
All Gold Canyon
100
18
The Apostate
118
18
To Build a Fire (1908)
136
15
The Chinago
151
13
Koolau the Leper
164
14
Good-by, Jack
178
9
Mauki
187
13
The Strength of the Strong
200
14
Samuel
214
18
A Piece of Steak
232
17
The Madness of John Harned
249
14
The Night-Born
263
13
War
276
6
Told in the Drooling Ward
282
9
The Mexican
291
23
The Red One
314
22
The Water Baby
336
11
THE CALL OF THE WILD
347
212
SELECTED NONFICTION
Typhoon off the Coast of Japan
421
5
On the Writer's Philosophy of Life
426
4
First Aid to Rising Authors
430
8
Review of Frank Norris's The Octopus
438
4
Excerpts from The People of the Abyss
442
16
How I Became a Socialist
458
4
Getting into Print
462
5
The Terrible and Tragic in Fiction
467
8
What Life Means to Me
475
8
Things Alive
483
3
The Story of an Eye-Witness
486
6
Reports on the James J. Jeffries-Jack Johnson Championship Fight
492
11
A Classic of the Sea
503
5
Introduction to The Cry for Justice
508
3
Eight Factors of Literary Success
511
6
A SELECTION OF LETTERS
To the Editor, San Francisco Bulletin, September 17, 1898
517
1
To Mabel Applegarth, November 27, 1898
518
1
To Mabel Applegarth, November 30, 1898
519
5
To Anna Strunsky, December 21, 1899
524
2
To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., January 31, 1900
526
4
To Cloudesley Johns, June 16, 1900
530
2
To George P. Brett, March 10, 1903
532
2
To Charmian Kittredge, September 30, 1903
534
1
To Frederick I. Bamford, May 28, 1905
535
1
To Cloudesley Johns, September 4, 1905
536
1
To ``Dear Comrades,'' December 1905
537
1
To S. S. McClure, April 10, 1906
538
3
To George Sterling, June 24, 1906
541
1
To the Editor of Editor Magazine, April 1907
542
1
To Becky London, October 28, 1908
543
1
To Richard W. Gilder, December 22, 1908
544
1
To William E. Walling, November 30, 1909
545
1
To the Editor, Honolulu Advertiser, January 7, 1910
546
2
To the ``Comrades of the Mexican Revolution,'' February 4, 1911
548
1
To Ethan A. Cross, March 17, 1914
549
1
To Joseph Conrad, June 4, 1915
550
1
To Ethelda Hesser, September 21, 1915
551
1
To John R. Lindmark, September 21, 1915
552
1
To Mary Austin, November 5, 1915
553
2
To the Members of Local Glen Ellen, Socialist Labor Party, March 7, 1916
555
1
To Leo B. Mihan, October 24, 1916
556
1
To Waldo Frank, November 5, 1916
557
2
Suggestions for Further Reading
559