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Jack London: Novels and Stories (LOA #6): The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and other stories by Jack London (Hardcover, 1982)

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Title: Jack London: Novels and Stories (LOA #6). Author: Jack London. Format: Hardback. Type: Hardback. Subtitle: The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and other stories. Release Date: 01/11/1982.

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This Library of America volume of Jack London's best-known work is filled with thrilling action, an intuitive feeling for animal life, and a sense of justice that often works itself out through violence. London enjoyed phenomenal popularity in his own time (which included the depressions of the 1890s and the beginnings of World War One), and he remains one of the most widely read of all American writers. The Call of the Wild (1903), perhaps the best novel ever written about animals, traces a dog's sudden entry into the wild and the education necessary for his survival in the ways of the wolf pack. Like many of London's stories, this one is inspired by the early deprivations of his own pathetically short life: the primitive conditions of life as an oyster pirate in San Francisco; the restless existence of a hobo; the isolation of a prison inmate; the exertion of a laborer in the Oakland slums; and the frustration of a failed prospector for gold in the Alaskan Klondike. White Fang (1906), in which a wolf-dog becomes domesticated out of love for a man, is apparently the reverse side of the process found in The Call of the Wild, yet for many readers its moments of greatest authenticity are those which suggest that, in actual practice, civilization is pretty much a dog's life for everyone, of hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony. Though London was a reader of Marx and Nietzsche and an avowed socialist, he doubted that socialism could ever be put into practice and was convinced of the necessity for a brutal individualism. He thought of The Sea-Wolf (1904), the story of Wolf Larsen and his crew of outcasts on the lawless Alaskan seas, as an attack upon the superman philosophy, but the Captain is far more memorable than any of the book's civilized characters. London is an immensely exciting writer partly because the conflicts in his thinking tend to enhance rather than hinder the romantic and thrilling turns of his plots. The stories of the Klondike, which are based on his personal experiences and the stories of California, Mexico, and the South Seas, span the whole of London's career as a writer. He is one of the great storytellers in American literature, and his politics, with all their passion and contradiction, come to life through the vigor and red-blooded energy of his prose. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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The Library of America
ISBN-13
9780940450059
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Jack London: Novels and Stories (LOA #6): The Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and other stories
Author
Jack London
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
1982
Number of Pages
1021 Pages

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206mm
Item Width
130mm
Volume
1
Item Weight
663g

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Jack London
Series Title
Library of America Jack London Edition
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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