Table of Contents

Volume I: Introduction; About this edition; Abbreviations; Chronology: 1876-1905; Map of Klondike; 1. 1896-98; 2. 1899; 3. 1900; 4. 1901; 5. 1902; 6. 1903; 7. 1904; 8. 1905. Volume II: Abbreviations; Chronology; Map of 'Snark's' Voyage; 1. 1906; 2. 1907; 3. 1908; 4. 1909; 5. 1910; 6. 1911; 7. 1912. Volume III: Abbreviations; Chronology; Map of the Jack London ranch; 1. 1913; 2. 1914; 3. 1915; 4. 1916; Index of correspondents; General index.

About the Author

Earle Labor is Professor of English at Centenary College of Louisiana, and the author and editor of four books and many articles on Jack London and his works.

Robert C. Leitz, III is Professor of English at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, and the editor of Volume 3 of the Selected Letters of W.D. Howells

I. Milo Shepherd is the executor of the Jack London Estate.

Reviews

This is a carefully footnoted selection of 1500 letters that London wrote to friends and lovers, publishers and aspiring writers, and many other people. Covering all aspects of the author-adventurer's life, the correspondence is certainly charged with energyoften cocky, combative, even vindictive. However, few of these letters are very remarkable for style or depth of thought. London's reflections on the literary scene are usually mercenary; half the letters relate to his publishing contracts and financial needs. Aside from most university collections, then, libraries should find the one-volume Letters from Jack London (1965) more than adequate. Donald Ray, Manhattanville Coll. Lib., Purchase, N.Y.