The Little Mistress of the Big House

Dick Forrest and his wife Paola are the perfect couple; they complement each other wonderfully. One day, Dick's old friend Evan Graham visits, and their quiet, peaceful life comes to an end. Will the heroes manage to emerge honorably from... a situation full of intrigues and romantic entanglements? One of the most romantic and poignant love stories in American literature, which is still impossible to read without empathizing with the characters. Jack London considered 'The Little Mistress of the Big House' to be his best work. Jack London wrote over two hundred short stories, as well as numerous novels and novellas, making him a recognized master of adventure prose. 'The Little Mistress' is exactly what I have been striving for my entire writing life... this book is unusual, so unlike what I created before,' said the author himself about this novel, written in the genre of tragic prose.