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International Collectors Library (1984), Hardcover, 352 pages
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Tale of an heroic part-St. Bernard, part shepherd dog taken from sunny California and thrown into Klondike life as a sled-dog where he becomes the strongest leader ; Life of a Norwegian sealing schooner and a grim picture of a sailor who is a combination of savage and superman.
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LibraryThing member Stbalbach
The Call of the Wild (1903) is generally considered London's best work, London himself was a wild man: drunk heavily, whored, jailed, tramped, poached, prospected - the bastard son of a wandering Irish astrologer. The novel is London's reconciliation with his own wild nature - he eventually killed
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himself in 1916 with an overdose of morphine - but not before he produced a prodigious amount of work becoming one of the most popular authors of his age, and certainly one of the best storytellers. His work is at its best seen from the conflict between animal instinct and intellectual reason. Show Less
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English