The Little Mistress of the Big House

Jack London, the author of such famous books as "Martin Eden", "The Sea-Wolf", "White Fang", "The Call of the Wild", "The Sea-Wolf", considered his best work to be the novel "The Little Mistress of the Big House". "This is exactly what I have been striving for throughout my writing life..." the writer said in one interview. The basis of this poignant story is a classic love triangle: the heroine of the novel, Paola, a sincere, beautiful, and very vibrant girl, must make a choice between her husband and her lover, between the carefully built family nest and romantic uncertainty. Three people, three different worlds... For more than a century, this book has stirred the imaginations of readers, inviting each to choose their side in this tragic conflict of feelings.