The book includes three works of the famous American writer Jack London, standing apart in his literary heritage and expanding his textbook image of the classics of adventure literature. "Martin Eden" - the story of a simple sailor who accidentally found himself in a secular society and because of the sudden burst of love for the beautiful, sublime and refined Ruthie Morse decided to change his life, embarking on the path of literary creativity. This is a very difficult journey …........................................ The plot of the novel “The Little Mistress of the Big House”, written a year before the death of the writer, is a love triangle, the relationship in which partly echoes what happened at the California ranch of Jack London and his wife Charmian in the winter of late 1912 early 1913. This book, which shocked contemporaries of London with the frankness of sexual fantasies and the description of the irresistible temptation of adultery, the author considered his best work. The story “John Barley Grain” in many respects autobiographical, bitter and merciless in its frankness confession of a person whose life was spent in friendship with the title character personifying alcohol reveals to us another unexpected hypostasis of the personality of Jack London.