Martin Eden. The little mistress of the big house. John Barleycorn

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 classic of adventure literature.
“Martin Eden” is the story of a simple sailor who accidentally ended up in a secular society and, because of a suddenly flashed love for the beautiful, elevated and sophisticated Rufi, Morz decided to sharply change his life, stepping onto the path of literary work, but this path turns out to be a path Very, very thorny ...
At the heart of 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 partially echoes what was happening on the California Ranch of Jack London and his wife Charmian in the winter of the end of 1912 - the beginning 1913. The author considered this book, shocking the contemporaries of London with the frankness of sexual fantasies and the description of the irresistible temptation of adultery.
The story “John Barley Grain” is largely an autobiographical, bitter and merciless confession of a person whose life has passed in friendship with the title character personifying alcohol, ”Jack London reveals another unexpected personality