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The Call of the Wild

(Dodo Press)

By Jack London

(98)

| Paperback | 9781406552089

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Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading Continue

Jack London (1876-1916), was an American author and a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction. He was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing. London was self-educated. He taught himself in the public library, mainly just by reading books. In 1898, he began struggling seriously to break into print, a struggle memorably described in his novel, Martin Eden (1909). Jack London was fortunate in the timing of his writing career. He started just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public, and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, the equivalent of about $75,000 today. His career was well under way. Among his famous works are: Children of the Frost (1902), The Call of the Wild (1903), The Sea Wolf (1904), The Game (1905), White Fang (1906), The Road (1907), Before Adam (1907), Adventure (1911), and The Scarlet Plague (1912).

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  • Call of the Wild

    In the last year or so whenever I'm in the mood for a bit lighter fare than the thick history tomes I usually read, I've been trying to catch up on some classics, "children's" classics, I never read (in 4th grade, I was reading "Gone with the Wind", and the "Poldark" series--not your usual "youth" r ... (continue)

    In the last year or so whenever I'm in the mood for a bit lighter fare than the thick history tomes I usually read, I've been trying to catch up on some classics, "children's" classics, I never read (in 4th grade, I was reading "Gone with the Wind", and the "Poldark" series--not your usual "youth" reading). Finally, I picked up the one book that drove my uncle, as a boy growing up in southern Alabama, to abandon the Gulf Coast for Alaska.

    Fully aware that many of these classics are being re-written to conform to PC'ness, I've found my local library to be a gold mine for unaltered versions. And London's "Call of the Wild" is a perfect example of a candidate for banning by our current Nanny Statists. It is brutal and bloody, and promotes "competitive behavior"--that which must be squashed in a world of "participation trophies".

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