A Son of the Sun (novel)

A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific 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, 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, pirates, and cannibals.

Contents

 * 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