Jack London wrote an almost incredible number of short stories and novelettes before his premature death at the age of 40, as well as novels, novellas and a considerable number of essays, plays, poems, and articles. The sheer volume of his output and the wide variety of his subjects, ranging from the Klondike, the South Seas and Hawaii, Sailing, Hobos, Political Fiction and Crime Fiction to Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Boxing and others. He likely born in San Francisco, California as John Griffith Chaney. Like the restive characters in his works, London sought a variety of experiences as a young man including sailor, hobo and an agitator for jobs during the depression. He also wrote some of the earliest Dystopian Fiction, including The Iron Heel which portrays America under tyrannical rule, written ten years before the Bolsheviks took over Russia. The Man With the Gash was first published in 1900. A profiteer has squatted a log cabin on the route to Dawson City, where he levies a fee on passing gold-rushers for the right to sleep on the floor, a profitable endeavour indeed. But he has nightmares about a man with a gash on his face robbing him of his ill-gotten hoard of gold dust - and one day a burly musher with a huge slash across his face comes by, and vigorously declines to submit to the roadside Shylock’s arbitrary demands. Listen online to free English audiobook "The Man With the Gash” on our website to experience Jack London's short story.