The Call of the Wild

Jack London (1878-1918) was an American author who earned renown across the globe for his fictional work, at a time when commercial magazine fiction was a market on the rise. Although he is known for fictional stories set in the Klondike Gold Rush, including White Fang and The Call of the Wild, London practiced what he wrote. On July 12, 1897, London and his brother in law, Captain Shepard, sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. London earned more illnesses than gold, suffering from scurvy and malnutrition, but the experience gave him the ability to very vividly depict stories in the terrain and climate, which would eventually make him an incredibly wealthy celebrity. Londons most popular novel is The Call of the Wild, about a sled dog named Buck who is serving his master in the Yukon during the Gold Rush, in which sled dogs were a necessity. The story tells the tale of Buck undergoing a change as a result of his primordial instincts once he becomes introduced to the wild. The novel is also somewhat revolutionary in the way it ascribes human emotions and thoughts to the dog, making Buck seem human. The Call of the Wild is easy enough to make it mandatory reading in many junior highs across the United States, but the story is complex and dark enough to captivate adults just as well. This edition of The Call of the Wild is specially formatted with a Table of Contents and includes over a dozen images of London and the story.

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