"The Call of the Wild" is writer Jack London's first novel and the enormous popularity of the book put London on the literary map and propelled him to worldwide fame. London spins the tale of a dog named Buck, a powerful St. Bernard mix, who lives a pampered life in California until he is stolen and sold into servitude as a sled dog in the frozen Yukon. Quickly adapting to his new surroundings, Buck survives a bitter rivalry with a fellow sled dog and becomes lead dog himself. But as he becomes more accustomed to life in the tundra, Buck begins to yearn for freedom and a life among his canine brethren in the wild. A breakthrough novel when it was first serialized in 1903, "The Call of the Wild" has become a literary classic and has been adapted to the screen numerous times. It is presented here in its original and unabridged format.
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"A brutal story sometimes, but a really riveting story." — Mille4 (5 out of 5 stars)
"A brutal story sometimes, but a really riveting story."
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Jack London (1876–1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. Before making a living at his writing, he spent time as an oyster pirate, a sailor, a cannery worker, a gold miner, and a journalist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction writing. He is best known for his novels The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set during the Klondike gold rush, as well as the short stories “To Build a Fire,” “An Odyssey of the North,” and “Love of Life.” He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as “The Pearls of Parlay” and “The Heathen.” He was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, including The Iron Heel, The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
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