''A Son of the Sun'' is a 1912 novel by

Jack London John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to ...

. It is set in the South

Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contine ...

at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mounta ...

, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts the striking panorama of the South seas with adventurers, scoundrels, swindlers,

pirate Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...

s, and

cannibal Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Cannibalism is a common ecological interaction in the animal kingdom and has been recorded in more than 1,500 species. Human cannibalism is well documented, bo ...

* A Son of the Sun (collecting debts from a stubborn debitor, the hard way) * The Proud Goat of Aloysius Pankburn (getting an alcoholic sober with hard work and ambition) * The Devils of Fuatino (getting sieged by pirates and sieging them back) * The Jokers of New Gibbon (complicated dealings with man-eaters) * A Little Account With Swithin Hall * A Goboto Night * The Feathers of the Sun (a crook introduces home-made paper money and is spanked with a particularly dead pig) * The Pearls of Parlay

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Project Gutenberg Complete Text

The Jack London Online Collection Complete Text
1912 American novels Novels by Jack London American adventure novels Novels set in the Pacific Ocean Doubleday, Page & Company books Novels about cannibalism {{1910s-adventure-novel-stub

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