The Abysmal Brute (annotated)

The Abysmal Brute is a boxing fiction classic by Jack London that tells a breezy tale showing the crookedness of the methods of prize-ring managers specially in fleecing the prize-ring public in betting. The hero is a successful young giant who has been trained by his father in the mountains, and who thinks the game is played square until enlightened by a young woman reporter. Then follows a whirlwind wooing, exposing of the frauds and retirement. In 1910, when the story was written, London...