The call of the wild

Jack London

maj 2016 · Editora Dracaena

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The Call of the Wild released in 1903 is considered the masterpiece of London and one of his major works, having touched millions of people around the world telling journey of Buck, a St. Bernard dog who is kidnapped from his comfortable home and taken to the Yukon during the gold rush in the 19th century.

O autorze

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916) was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.