During the first fifteen years of this century, the golden era both of the American magazine and of the American short story, London dominated the literary marketplace as perhaps no author has done before or since: scarcely a month passed without the appearance of his name in the newspapers and of his stories in popular magazines such as
Cosmopolitan and the
Saturday Evening Post. In less than two decades he produced two hundred short stories and four hundred nonfiction pieces, fifty books on such varied subjects as agronomy, architecture, astral projection, economics, gold-hunting, penal reform, political corruption, prizefighting, seafaring, and socialism.
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