This is Volume VIII of Jack London's Collective Short Stories, including All Gold Canon and The Man with the Gash. All Gold Canon is a short story that brings to light the cruelty of capitalism by telling how a miner, who finds a gold mine through hard exploration, is nearly murdered by another man discovering it before. London himself has also experienced a painful period of gold mining, which facilitates the vivid description between the lines. In The Man with the Gash, the hero is a real gold-grubber. He forcibly occupies a cabin for travelers and mulcts a dollar per head from the overnight passengers. Tortured by a constant fear of theft, he figures out various ways to hide his gold from being stolen. Kent gradually becomes neurotic as often he dreams that a man with the gash on his right cheek is to steal his gold. One night...

杰克•伦敦的短篇小说《黄金谷》，通过记述一个淘金人在经过日夜的探察，终于发现金矿，却在欣喜之中险遭另一发现这一金矿的淘金人杀害的故事，揭示了在二十世纪初资本主义自由竞争的残酷。《有伤疤的人》里的主人公是个唯利是图到心理变态程度的人。他霸占了通往淘金路上供行人免费休息的一间小木屋，向每个过夜的人收取一块钱。他成天提心吊胆，想出各种藏金子的办法，以防被人偷走。他经常梦到一个脸上有伤疤的人，想偷他的金子，他因此变得有点神经质了。一天他想出一个办法，可以在一个小天平上一次称出他所有的金子，正在洋洋自得时，有个人进门，脸上正有道疤，和肯特梦里的强盗完全一样。半夜，肯特梦游，把金子装进了枪管里。第二天早上，他发现金子没有了，就把来人绑起来，向他追索金子。追讨无果的肯特最后扣响了扳机，但是，枪管炸了，肯特死在自己的金子下。