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The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck.
Read the classic novel about a dog's journey from civilization to the wilderness in the Yukon. This PDF ebook is in the public domain and was created by JoséMenéndez.
Learn about the plot and themes of Jack London's classic novel, The Call of the Wild, in this comprehensive summary. Follow Buck, a dog who is kidnapped, trained, and transformed by the wilderness, as he faces hardship, adventure, and loss.
The Call of the Wild, novel by Jack London, published serially by The Saturday Evening Post in 1903 and then as a single-volume book by Macmillan & Co. the same year. It is often considered to be his masterpiece and is the most widely read of all his publications.
Based on London's experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, The Call of the Wild is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the fight for survival in the frozen Alaskan Klondike.
When 21-year-old Jack London embarked to the Klondike in search of gold, he took Milton's Paradise Lost and Darwin's On the Origin of the Species with him. In The Call of the Wild, London wrestles with Milton's concept of free will through Buck, whose fate primarily remains in the hands of his human owners and the conditions on the trail ...
The Call of the Wild is the classic novel of wilderness adventure from one of the first American writers to achieve international fame, Jack London. Kidnapped form his safe California...
