This is Volume IV of Jack London's Collective Short Stories, including Grit of Women and The End of the Story. Grit of Women tells how a resolute woman helps her husband accomplish tasks and walk out of the snow field. Out of love, the heroine sacrifices her life to save her husband. The End of the Story is a short story concerning love and morality. The hero Linday, a kind-hearted doctor, makes a perilous journey trying to heal a man clawed by a panther, only to find that the man is Rex Strang, the very person with whom his wife has eloped. Inflamed with anger, Linday refuses to heal Strang unless Madge will promise to go with him. So desperately in love is Madge with her eloper that she yields to Linday's demand. Several months later, Strang finally pulls through under Linday's medical treatment. Madge keeps to her words and is ready to go with him. At this very moment, something unexpected happens...
《女人的刚毅》刻画了一位无私、坚强的印第安女人。她是丈夫为了完成任务买来的女人，但是她为了爱情，可以拒绝自己哥哥的求助，甚至可以牺牲自己的性命。她用自己的生命换取所爱人的生命，帮助爱人走出了雪野，自己却永远倒下了。整本小说行文造句短小精悍，简洁明快，赞颂了女性特有的人性光芒。《故事的结局》是一篇爱情伦理小说。一个善良的医生林迪，不顾零下五十多度的恶劣环境，经过三天三夜到达目的地准备救治一位被豹抓伤的病人时，发现这个病人正是与自己妻子马奇私奔的男人斯特朗。愤恨中，林迪要求除非妻子和自己走，否则就不救斯特朗。而此时的妻子却深爱着斯特朗，愿意为斯特朗答应林迪的要求。几个月后，林迪救活了斯特朗，马奇也信守承诺，准备和林迪离开，但就在这时......