The Call of the Wild - Couverture souple

London, Jack

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1503302946 ISBN 13 : 9781503302945

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.” ― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is a novel by Jack London published in 1903. The story is set in the Yukon during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush—a period when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The novel's central character is a dog named Buck, a domesticated dog living at a ranch in the Santa Clara valley of California as the story opens.

Stolen from his home and sold into the brutal existence of an Alaskan sled dog, he reverts to atavistic traits. Buck is forced to adjust to, and survive, cruel treatments and fight to dominate other dogs in a harsh climate. Eventually he sheds the veneer of civilization, relying on primordial instincts and lessons he learns, to emerge as a leader in the wild. London lived for most of a year in the Yukon collecting material for the book.

The story was serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903; a month later it was released in book form. The novel’s great popularity and success made a reputation for London. Much of its appeal derives from the simplicity with which London presents the themes in an almost mythical form. As early as 1908 the story was adapted to film and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations.

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"This is the best scholarly edition of The Call of the Wild currently available, with a superb, wide-ranging introduction by Nicholas Ruddick that is a model of judicious lucidity. The edition is also greatly enhanced by a series of fascinating primary documents situating the novella in an array of turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural contexts, including the Klondike gold rush, Darwin on dogs and men, theories of atavism and instinct, and controversies surrounding charges of plagiarism against Jack London. Highly recommended." - Jonathan Auerbach, University of Maryland

This is the best scholarly edition of The Call of the Wild currently available, with a superb, wide-ranging introduction by Nicholas Ruddick that is a model of judicious lucidity. The edition is also greatly enhanced by a series of fascinating primary documents situating the novella in an array of turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural contexts, including the Klondike gold rush, Darwin on dogs and men, theories of atavism and instinct, and controversies surrounding charges of plagiarism against Jack London. Highly recommended. --Jonathan Auerbach, University of Maryland

"This is the best scholarly edition of The Call of the Wild currently available, with a superb, wide-ranging introduction by Nicholas Ruddick that is a model of judicious lucidity. The edition is also greatly enhanced by a series of fascinating primary documents situating the novella in an array of turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural contexts, including the Klondike gold rush, Darwin on dogs and men, theories of atavism and instinct, and controversies surrounding charges of plagiarism against Jack London. Highly recommended." --Jonathan Auerbach, University of Maryland

"This is the best scholarly edition of The Call of the Wild currently available, with a superb, wide-ranging introduction by Nicholas Ruddick that is a model of judicious lucidity. The edition is also greatly enhanced by a series of fascinating primary documents situating the novella in an array of turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural contexts, including the Klondike gold rush, Darwin on dogs and men, theories of atavism and instinct, and controversies surrounding charges of plagiarism against Jack London. Highly recommended." --Jonathan Auerbach, University of Maryland

Biographie de l'auteur

Jack London was born John Griffith Chaney on January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California. It is unknown whether or not his parents were actually married, but apparently his father disowned the family upon his birth. His mother attempted suicide and he was raised by Virginia Prentiss, a former slave. In 1876, his mother married a partially disabled Civil War veteran, whose last name was London. When he was thirteen, he began working eighteen hour days in a cannery. Borrowing money from Prentiss, he bought a boat and became an oyster pirate. In 1893, he joined the crew of a seal boat in Japan. By 1894, he was in jail in Buffalo, New York for vagrancy, then returned to Oakland, California to attend high school and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1897, he left to join the Klondike Gold Rush, but became ill. By 1898, he was a socialist, and working on his first novel, using his real-life experiences in the books. He was married in 1900, had two daughters in 1901 and 1902, then was divorced in 1903. He married a second time in 1905 and was in San Francisco to witness the great earthquake of 1906 firsthand. He died on November 22, 1916 at age 40, in Glen Ellen, California of kidney failure, having written twenty-three novels, 67 short stories, twenty-one short story collections and three plays in a thirteen year span.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1503302946
• ISBN 13: 9781503302945
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 106
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