When God Laughs and Other Stories

Young lovers were pale and anaemic beside that long-married pair. To see them all fire and flame and tenderness at a trembling distance lavishing caresses of eye and voice with every action through every silence-their love driving them toward each other and they withholding like fluttering moths each to the other a candle-flame... Small wonder they were called the wonderful lovers. -from When God Laughs He was one of the most prolific American writers of the early 20th century and remains one of the most beloved but while his novels have remained continuously in print for a century his short stories have been much harder to find. Here in one volume first published in 1911 are a marvelous selection of Jack Londons short fiction including: When God Laughs . The Apostate . A Wicked Woman . Just Meat Created He Them . The Chinago . Make Westing . Semper Idem . A Nose for the King The Francis Spaight . A Curious Fragment . A Piece of Steak These outstanding stories-of the sea of the land of the ordinary people who work them-are examples of London at this passionate best. American writer Jack London (1876-1916) is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild (1903) White Fang (1906) and the work considered his best The Sea-Wolf (1904).