Little Lady of the Big House

The Little Lady of the Big House is a last novel by American writer Jack London to be published during his lifetime.The story concerns a love triangle. The protagonist, Dick Forrest, is a rancher with a poetic streak (his 'acorn song' recalls London's play, 'The Acorn Planters'). His wife, Paula, is a vivacious, athletic, and sexually self-aware woman, who falls in love with Evan Graham, an old friend of her husband. Unable to choose between the two men, she wounds herself mortally with a rifle in what her husband is certain is a suicide.