sentences:  London published "The Scarlet Plague" in book form at a point in his career that biographers and critics have called a "professional decline", from September 1912 to May 1916.In this period, he stopped writing short works and shifted to longer works including "The Abysmal Brute" (1913), "John Barleycorn" (1913), "The Mutiny of the Elsinore" (1914), "The Star Rover" (1915), among others.