Name: The Call Of The Wild
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Author: London, Jack
ISBN: 9789356560925

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jack London

Publisher

Double 9 Booksllp

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm

Weight

0.14 kg.

ISBN13

9789356560925

Synopsis "The Call Of The Wild"

The Call of the Wild is a short experience novel by Jack London, distributed in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when solid sled canines were sought after. The focal character of the novel is a canine named Buck. The story opens at a farm in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is taken from his home and sold into administration as a sled canine in Alaska. He turns out to be logically more crude and wild in the cruel climate, where he is compelled to battle to get by and overwhelm different canines. By and by, he sheds the facade of human advancement, and depends on early stage intuition and learned insight to arise as an innovator in nature.

Jack London

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Jack London (1876-1916), pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, is one of the great American writers of the early 20th century. His world is inspired by a very subjective interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and is built on the principle of survival of the fittest. Born in San Francisco, he was essentially a self-taught child who avidly read the collections of the public library. At seventeen, he embarked on his first schooner, heading to Japan. After several experiences as a sailor and vagabond -which also led to his imprisonment-, London attended Oakland High School and later, the University of California, which he had to leave due to financial problems. Like many, he suffered from gold fever until he finally turned to writing.

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