V sbornik voshli pervyi roman Dzheka Londona "Doch snegov" i luchshie rasskazy. Frona Uelz, glavnaia geroinia romana, natura silnaia, umnaia, otvazhnaia, nezavisimaia i svobodnaia ot svetskikh uslovnostei i v to zhe vremia neobyknovenno obaiatelnaia - slovom, zhenshchina, sposobnaia dumat, liubit, borotsia i delit ispytaniia naravne s luchshimi iz muzhchin. Liubovnyi treugolnik na fone bezumnoi "zolotoi likhoradki" Klondaika, prikliuchenii zolotoiskatelei i tragicheskoi degradatcii indeitcev â€" zakhvatyvaiushchee smeshenie zhanrov.