Publisher Description
Presented here are two of Jack London's most popular adventure stories of canine survival and hardship in the frozen north: "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang." First up, London's premiere novel "The Call of the Wild," which spins the take of Buck, a St. Bernard mix who is kidnapped from his life as a pampered pet in California and forced into servitude as a sled dog in the Yukon. Full of struggle, hardship and triumph, "Call of the Wild" was a huge success when it was first serialized in 1903 and it has gone on to become of the of the most popular books of the 20th century. London followed it up with "White Fang," the story of a wild half-wolf puppy in the Yukon territory named White Fang who, similar to Buck, faces numerous challenges and abuse before he is rescued and tamed by a kindly stranger. Two towering stories of adventure, survival, loyalty, betrayal and redemption, "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" are presented here in their original and unabridged format and are narrated by renowned audiobook performer Joseph Wycoff, best known for his performances of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" and "Men Without Women."
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About Jack London
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.