The Little Lady of the Big House — Jack London

The Little Lady of the Big House 1915 was Jack London s last novel 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