The complete online text of A Collection of Stories by Jack London.

American author and advocate of socialism Jack London (1876-1916) wrote popular adventure stories and social tracts based on unusual personal experiences. At their best, his works are powerful and moving narratives. Jack London, in full John Griffith Lon...

Jack London has been recognized as one of the most dynamic figures in American literature. Sailor, hobo, Klondike argonaut, social crusader, war correspondent, scientific farmer, self-made millionaire, global traveler, and adventurer, London captured the...

"No literary historian but sooner or later must reckon with Jack London," Fred Lewis Pattee asserts in The Development of the American Short Story (1923), for "he represented more than an individual: he was the product of a literary condition in America....

The Collected Stories By Amy Hempel Scribner, 409pp. $27.50 Accidents Will Happen Pay no more than $27.50 for this book! Amy Hempel knows how to load a one-liner with meaning-"The house next door was rented for the summer to a couple...

THE COLLECTED STORIES OF RICHARD YATES By Richard Yates Henry Holt. 496 pp. $28 Richard Yates was 35 years old when his first novel, Revolutionary Road, was published in 1961. It was a critical success, as were most of the eight...

Nobel laureate for literature Nadine Gordimer, noted for her work about the inhumanity of apartheid, has become one of just a few South Africans to receive France's highest award, the Legion of Honor.Gordimer was awarded the decorative medal on at a ceremony over the weekend...

Matthew Broderick will portray a man at sea, adrift in a mid-life crisis that unfolds in "The Starry Messenger," Kenneth Lonergan's new play, which will receive its world premiere during the 2007-2008 season at Manhattan Theatre Club.Casting and its playing schedule at MTC's Stage I...