Fiction · 1903
The Call of the Wild
Buck, a large and comfortable dog on a Californian estate, is stolen and sold north to serve as a sled dog in the Klondike gold rush. Under the whip and the cold he learns the law of club and fang, changes masters, and hears — with growing insistence — the call of the wild.
Jack London published the story in 1903 after his own time in the Yukon. It made his name and remains his most read book: a short, unsentimental novel of survival, told from the animal’s point of view without pretending the animal is a person.
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1876–1916 · Modern
Jack London (1876–1916) was born in San Francisco and left school early to work — in a cannery, on an oyster pirate’s sloop, on a sealing schooner, as a tramp, and in the Klondike gold rush of 1897, which gave him the material for The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906) and many stories. A prolific and hugely popular writer, he also wrote The Sea-Wolf (1904), The Iron Heel (1908) and the autobiographical Martin Eden (1909). He died at forty on his ranch in California.
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