Jack London wrote adventure fiction shaped by wilderness, labour and the struggle between human or animal instinct and harsh physical conditions. The Call of the Wild follows Buck, a domesticated dog stolen from California and forced into sled work during the Klondike Gold Rush, while White Fang reverses the movement by following a wolf-dog from the wild towards human companionship. The Sea-Wolf places writer Humphrey Van Weyden aboard a sealing schooner commanded by the intellectually formidable and violent Wolf Larsen. London also wrote about poverty, work and political ideas in fiction and reportage. His prose is direct and action-led, with cold, hunger and physical endurance treated concretely rather than symbolically alone. The Call of the Wild and White Fang make London especially relevant to animal and wilderness fiction, while The Sea-Wolf offers a harsher human conflict built around survival, labour and competing ideas about strength. Read more Less
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