Jack London

The Little Lady of the Big House Annotated Jack London

The Little Lady of the Big House (1915) is a novel by American writer Jack London. It was his last novel to be published during his lifetime. A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start to finish -- in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength.