A prospector bargains for a bride in the snow. A dying man makes one last desperate bet against the cold. A stranger earns — or fails to earn — the respect of a people who have no patience for weakness.
The Son of the Wolf is Jack London's very first short story collection, the book that introduced readers to the frozen Yukon world he would make legendary: gold rush prospectors, Indigenous communities, and the brutal, indifferent wilderness that separates the strong from the doomed. Raw, direct, and unmistakably London, these nine stories carry all the intensity of his later masterpieces in miniature.
The origin point of an American literary legend, still gripping more than a century later.
Jack London's debut collection — where his legend beganNine tightly wound stories of survival in the Klondike gold rushEssential reading for fans of The Call of the Wild and White Fang
The wilderness doesn't forgive. These stories don't either.
