Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure

Written in 1915, "Michael, Brother of Jerry," is one of Jack London's "dog" novels and tells the story of a good-natured and very intelligent Irish Terrier named Michael and his many adventures and encounters with four-legged creatures and two-legged "gods" at sea and on land. In the book's preface, London makes a passionate plea for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Talking of the training of animals for performance, he says, "It was a body of cruelty so horrible that I am confident no normal person exists who, once aware of it, could ever enjoy looking on at any trained-animal turn."