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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 18:40:09 GMT -5
Jack London, probably born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916), was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and over fifty other books. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_London
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 18:41:21 GMT -5
The Call of the Wild Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is London's most familiar book and considered one of his best. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is often mistakenly thought to be particularly suitable for children. The hero, Buck, is a domestic pet a 140 lb St. Bernard/Scotch Shepherd (ie Collie) mix who is abducted by thieves and sold to a trainer of sled dogs. In a series of episodes, Buck is forced to survive and adapt to brutal and cruel conditions. He is eventually acquired by a kind and loving—but exploitative—owner, John Thornton. When Thornton is killed by "Yeehat Indians," Buck returns to the wild. Images of death, cruelty, and Darwinian struggle abound. Of the new world Buck enters, London writes "The salient thing of this other world seemed fear." (Such dark themes are typical of Jack London's work, and he defended them in his essay "The Terrible and Tragic in Fiction.") The University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page [1] states that "Jack London's writing was censored in several European dictatorships in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1929, Italy banned all cheap editions of his Call of the Wild, and Yugoslavia banned all his works as being 'too radical.' Some of London's works were also burned by the Nazis." (These regimes may have been reacting to Jack London's reputation as an outspoken Socialist rather than to the content of the book, which, unlike some of his other novels, has no overt political message). In 1960, critic Maxwell Geismar called The Call of the Wild "a beautiful prose poem." Editor Franklin Walker said that it "belongs on a shelf with Walden and Huckleberry Finn". E. L. Doctorow called it "a mordant parable... his masterpiece." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_the_Wild
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 18:42:48 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 18:47:19 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 18:47:46 GMT -5
Call of the Wild by Jack London in order of appearance, as indicated: Chapters 1-3: primitive, glimpse, interlace, imperiously, inseparable, universal, sate, aristocrat, egotistical, treachery, menacing, deft, ebb, hydrophobia, impending, calamity, tallow, assail, taunt, metamorphose, ferocity, wrench, slouch, conciliate, impartial, primordial, draught, appeasement, ignominious, yelp, trounce, indispensable, ravenous, perpetual, blunder, ruthless, cunning, acuteness, conspicuous, primeval, malingerer, goad, treacherous, contemplation, eddy, daunt, quiver, swerve, covert, culprit, borealis, articulate, travail, exultantly, brood Chapters 4-7: obdurate, comply, unruly, scorched, flounder, exertion, chaffer, apprehensive, remonstrance, abide, tote, wrench, whoop, inexorable, superfluous, mongrel, shorn, chivalrous, rouse, eloquent, nudge, tenderfoot, appall, quibble, contagion, grit, vigilant, impel, recurrent, pivot, pertinacity, belie, imperiously, chaff, sequential, simultaneous, ambuscade, lolling, calamity, multitudinous, excrescence, discomfit, muse www.vocabulary.com/VUctcallofwild.html
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 18:49:48 GMT -5
Call of the Wild, White Fang Jack London State Historic Park 2400 London Ranch Rd Glen Ellen, CA 95442 (707) 938-5216 www.parks.sonoma.net/JLPark.html Jack London State Historic Park was created in 1959, when a small portion - about 40 acres - of London's 1,400-acre Beauty Ranch was acquired by the state. The original park included London's grave, the ruins of Wolf House, and Charmian London's House of Happy Walls
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 18:55:27 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 19:28:47 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 19:31:11 GMT -5
Books by Jack London and Year of Publication 1900 The Son of the Wolf 1901 The God of His Fathers 1902 Children of the Frost 1902 The Cruise of the Dazzler 1902 A Daughter of the Snows 1903 The Kempton-Wace Letters 1903 The Call of the Wild 1903 The People of the Abyss 1904 The Faith of Men 1904 The Sea Wolf 1905 War of the Classes 1905 The Game 1905 Tales of the Fish Patrol 1906 Moon-Face and Other Stories 1906 White Fang 1907 Before Adam 1907 Love of Life and Other Stories 1908 The Iron Heel 1909 Martin Eden 1910 Lost Face 1910 Revolution and Other Essays 1910 Burning Daylight 1911 When God Laughs and Other Stories 1911 South Sea Tales 1912 The House of Pride and Other Stories 1912 A Son of the Sun 1912 Smoke Bellew 1913 The Night-Born 1913 The Abysmal Brute 1913 John Barleycorn 1913 The Valley of the Moon 1914 The Strength of the Strong 1914 The Mutiny of the Elsinore 1915 The Scarlet Plague 1915 The Star Rover 1916 The Little Lady of the Big House 1916 The Turtles of Tasman 1917 The Human Drift 1917 Jerry of the Islands 1917 Michael Brother of Jerry 1918 The Red One 1919 On the Makaloa Mat 1920 Hearts of Three 1922 Dutch Courage and Other Stories parks.sonoma.net/booksby.html
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Post by Charity on Jan 1, 2006 19:36:35 GMT -5
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Post by Charity on Jan 3, 2006 17:22:36 GMT -5
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