The call of the wild [LP]
The Call of the Wild was written by Jack London (1876<U+2013>1916) and was first published in 1903. It is Jack London's most well known work. Set in the 1890s during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon in northern Canada, along with some other locations, The Call of the Wild is a tale of survival of...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
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[Ontario, Canada] :
Cactus Classics, an imprint of Cactus Publishing, Inc.,
2019.
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| Edition: | [Large print ed.]. |
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| Summary: | The Call of the Wild was written by Jack London (1876<U+2013>1916) and was first published in 1903. It is Jack London's most well known work. Set in the 1890s during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon in northern Canada, along with some other locations, The Call of the Wild is a tale of survival of a dog named Buck and his transformation from a domesticated dog to one who lives in the wild. Jack London was a prolific writer of novels, short stories, non-fiction, autobiographical memoirs, plays and more. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild, White Fang, The Sea Wolf, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden and The People of the Abyss. |
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| Physical Description: | 166 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781773600451 1773600451 |
| Author Notes: | London was born in San Francisco in 1876. At 14, he quit school and became an "oyster pirate," robbing oyster beds to sell his booty to the bars and restaurants in Oakland. Later, he turned on his pirate associates and joined the local Fish Patrol, resulting in some hair-raising waterfront battles. Other youthful activities included sailing on a seal-hunting ship, traveling the United States as a railroad tramp, a jail term for vagrancy and a hazardous winter in the Klondike during the 1897 gold rush. Those experiences converted him to socialism, as he educated himself through prolific reading and began to write fiction. After a struggling apprenticeship, London hit literary paydirt by combining memories of his adventures with Darwinian and Spencerian evolutionary theory, the Nietzchean concept of the "superman" and a Kipling-influenced narrative style. "The Son of the Wolf"(1900) was his first popular success, followed by 'The Call of the Wild" (1903), "The Sea-Wolf" (1904) and "White Fang" (1906). He also wrote nonfiction, including reportage of the Russo-Japanese War and Mexican revolution, as well as "The Cruise of the Snark" (1911), an account of an eventful South Pacific sea voyage with his wife, Charmian, and a rather motley crew. London's body broke down prematurely from his rugged lifestyle and hard drinking, and he died of uremic poisoning - possibly helped along by a morphine overdose - at his California ranch in 1916. Though his massive output is uneven, his best works - particularly "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" - have endured because of their rich subject matter and vigorous prose. (Bowker Author Biography) |
