![]() ![]() Although London was paid only $2,750 for the novel, he won instant literary fame and wide popularity. It first appeared in summer 1903 as a serialized work in the Saturday Evening Post. Young’s historical narrative My Dogs in the Northland (1902), Jack London wrote The Call of the Wild in only one month. Ultimately, Buck struggles between his love for his last master, John Thornton, and his desire to answer the mysterious call of his ancestors.ĭrawing from Egerton R. ![]() Despite all this hardship, Buck is “mastered by the sheer surging of life” for the first time. He endures hunger and fatigue, learns to scavenge for food, and fights with a rival dog. He courageously survives brutal cruelty from humans and the wilderness, and he becomes the leader of his dogsled team. Set mostly during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897–98 in Canada’s Yukon Territory and Alaska, the novel chronicles Buck’s struggles and successes as he learns “the law of club and fang.”įour years as a domesticated pet have not extinguished Buck’s primordial instincts or imagination. Late one night in 1897, a poor farm-worker steals Buck from his comfortable Northern California home and sells him as a sled dog. ![]() The hero of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild (1903) is Buck, a St. ![]()
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