The Little Lady of the Big House ebook

Paula Forrest has everything a modern woman could want — a brilliant rancher husband, a thriving Californian estate run on the newest scientific methods, and the freedom to live exactly as she pleases. Then an old friend of her husband's comes to stay.

Jack London's The Little Lady of the Big House is his most daring novel of marriage and desire: a hothouse triangle between Dick Forrest, the visionary rancher building a utopia of efficiency and progress; his restless, magnetic wife Paula; and Evan Graham, the guest whose arrival unsettles everything. Beneath the polished surface of ranch life, London stages a startlingly frank debate on jealousy, fidelity, and what a "modern" marriage can survive.

Part pastoral idyll, part slow-burning tragedy, it's London writing at his most intimate and controversial.

• London's most personal and psychologically daring novel
• A vivid portrait of early 20th-century scientific ranching
• A love triangle that builds toward an unforgettable ending

Some marriages are tested by hardship. This one is tested by happiness.