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The Call of the Wild, is a novel written by Jack London. Initially, it was published serially but in the same year, it was brought in a book form. Of all his publications, it is the most widely read and considered to be his masterpiece. The novels story revolves around Buck and his journey as a sled dog. It begins at the house of Judge Miller where Buck is a taken care of as a domesticated pet. However, after sometime, he is stolen by one of Millers gardeners as the demand for this breed of dog increases. The gardener sells him to dog traders and makes a profit, and Buck is soon abused and…mehr

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The Call of the Wild, is a novel written by Jack London. Initially, it was published serially but in the same year, it was brought in a book form. Of all his publications, it is the most widely read and considered to be his masterpiece. The novels story revolves around Buck and his journey as a sled dog. It begins at the house of Judge Miller where Buck is a taken care of as a domesticated pet. However, after sometime, he is stolen by one of Millers gardeners as the demand for this breed of dog increases. The gardener sells him to dog traders and makes a profit, and Buck is soon abused and beaten as he goes. In the novel, there comes a time when Buck is forced to adapt to the wild and his primitive instincts begin to surface. During this time he makes an enemy of the lead sled dog, Spitz. This led to a battle between the two and Buck kills Spitz and appoints himself as the new lead dog.
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John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he 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.