The Temple of Pride. The Princess. The Eternity of Forms and Other Stories

Volume twenty-four of the “Complete Works” of the outstanding American writer Jack London (1876–1916) includes three famous collections of stories, “The Temple of Pride,” “The Princess,” and “Eternal Forms.” Such masterpieces of short fiction as “Shadow and Luster,” “Recorded in an Asylum for Idiots,” “How the Argonauts Once Were,” and “A Remnant of the Tertiary Age” are beloved by many generations of readers around the world.

— The pilot zone stretches for sixty miles downstream along the river. “And how about the fever?” I asked the pilot, who came to us on the steamer early in the morning.

— Do you see this Hamburg boat?—he said, pointing to a fairly large vessel anchored nearby.—The captain and fourteen sailors are already dead, and the cook and two sailors are dying. They are the last ones—there’s nobody else over there.

Jack London “The Golden Nugget”