About the book: 1961 / The eleventh volume includes the novel "The Little Mistress of the Big House", collections of stories "Tasman Turtles" and "Dutch Valor". The basis of the novel "Little Mistress of the Big House" is a sentimental love story of Paola for her husband Dick Forrest and his friend Evan Graham. Many pages of the novel are devoted to Dick's hobbies of animal husbandry and the delights of country life on a rich estate. D. London argued that his three heroes do not belong to the number of “constantly whining weak-willed people and moralists. All of them are cultural, modern and at the same time deeply primitive people.” The collection “Tasman Turtles” is the last book by Jack London to be published during his lifetime. The collection is made up of stories published in magazines at different times: “Finis” - in 1907, “A Story Told in a Ward for the Feeble-Minded” - in 1914, the rest - in 1911. Noteworthy is the short dramatized story “Primitive poet". His fate is similar to the fate of another hero of D. London - Martin Eden. The writer clearly draws a parallel between the fate of the creator in the society of bourgeois “freedoms” and in the world of primitive people. Both here and there the end is the same - tragic death. The collection “Dutch Valor” was compiled by Charmaine London from various stories of the writer published in American periodicals in 1893-1904. and not included by the writer in the books. Published by the London publishing house Mills and Boon in 1923. Regarding the title story of the collection, D. London wrote in February 1900 to his friend Anna Strunskaya: “What am I writing now? I wrote letters all morning. And now I’ll start finalizing a children’s story for the magazine “US Campanion”, which they accepted on the condition that I change something in it. Isn’t it an inspiring start?” The story was published in the US Campanion on November 29, 1900. The essay “Typhoon off the Coast of Japan” was written by London for a competition announced by the San Francisco Call newspaper; it received first prize and was published in the issue of November 12, 1893. It is London's first published work. In the first American edition of the collection For Courage, Charmaine London's foreword was printed, which reads as follows: “I have not written and will not write a line that I would be ashamed to read to my daughters».