Gold

Over a comparatively short period—only about seventeen years—Jack London managed to write around fifty books.

These are novels and novellas, articles and stories, essays and notes. Of course, not everything created by the writer has stood the test of time.

But even today, his best works are read all over the world. The secret of such popularity is simple: Jack London wrote only about what he himself had experienced.

His creative philosophy was this: “You’re dealing with a roaring life, romance, the problems of human life and death, humor and pathos, etc. So, for God’s sake, treat them properly. Make your heroes tell about it with their deeds, actions, conversations, and so on. Put everything you have into the stories, and then step aside. That’s what creates the atmosphere. And with that atmosphere you will be yourself…”

This collection includes the stories:
- The Wizard
- The Last Breakfast
- The Inexorable Law
- Mercy
- Gold