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From: The Call of the Wild[(essay date 1903) In the following excerpt from The Call of the Wild, London details how Buck, the novel’s canine protagonist, adapts to the harsh conditions of the frigid Northland environment.] Buck’s first day on...
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From: Tomorrow[Sandburg finds the struggle of the individual with the “System” to be a common motif in London's work.] London's fame as a writer has of recent days been hard pushed by his notoriety as an agitator. Howells, “the dean...
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From: The Critical Response to Jack London[(review date September 1903) In the following review, originally published in the September 1903 issue of Book News Monthly, Stillé praises The Call of the Wild's ability to articulate the inner primordial instincts of...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionJack London is generally regarded as a master of naturalistic fiction. As such, his stories deal with the larger assumptions of naturalism that are based on both Darwinism and Marxism. In London's fiction humanity is...
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From: New Statesman[Hueffer stresses the eternal youthfulness of London and his writings. ] Jack London was the ideal yarn-spinner—his spoken stories were even better than his written—and one reason why I think him likely to be numbered...
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From:Gale Online Encyclopedia[Widdicombe is a freelance editor of college textbooks who lives in Alaska. In the essay below, she examines the mysterious effect of the merciless cold in “To Build a Fire” and in everyday Alaskan life.] The third...
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From:Reference Guide to American Literature (3rd ed.)Jack London was a talented writer so caught up in certain myths that they were part of what destroyed him. The illegitimate son of an impoverished spiritualist, Flora Wellman, he early learned self-reliance. Although he...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersThe works of Jack London, author of some twenty novels and novellas and over one hundred short stories, are marked by an enormous amount of preparation; he once asserted that he suffered a "lack of origination" and had...
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From: Jack London JournalTen minutes after meeting Jack London, one is impressed by his grim pessimism. He is, confessedly, a pessimist. But, before viewing this phase of London, let us have some small talk about things that may prove...
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From: The Atlantic Monthly[In the following excerpt, the reviewer, denying that The Call of the Wild is an allegory, offers a favorable estimate of the novel as an illumination of the nature of animals.] The Call of the Wild is a story...
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From: Markham ReviewDogs and men are fundamentally alike in the Klondike world of Jack London's The Call of the Wild: There was imperative need to be constantly alert; for these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They were savages,...
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From: Western American Literature[(essay date fall 1988) In the following essay, Reesman examines London's approach to knowledge in his story "The Water Baby," claiming that his South Sea tales of that period illustrate the influence of Carl Jung's...
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From: Concord Saunterer[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Wright determines Henry David Thoreau's influence on London's "The Night-Born."] The title of Jack London's short story "The Night-Born" comes from a passage in Henry David...
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From: Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters[(essay date 1939) In the following essay, Walcutt notes that anyone interested in American naturalism soon encounters the “superman” figure in some form. Walcutt defines the various forms of superman and explores the...
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From: Jack London Journal[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Lovett-Graff explores "The Strength of the Strong" and The Scarlet Plague in terms of how they are informed by London's commitment to socialist ideology.] Outside of H. G....
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From: The Novels of Jack London: A Reappraisal[(essay date 1983) In the following essay, Watson argues that in White Fang (1906) London shows the evolution and civilizing of a dog, a contrast to his usual portraits of decay and anarchy in civilization. Watson...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 1976) In the following essay, Ward surveys several of London's short stories written specifically for children.] Jack London is best known as the author of The Call of the Wild and The Sea-Wolf, a handful...
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From: Exotic Journeys: Exploring the Erotics of U.S. Travel Literature, 1840-1930[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Edwards elucidates the homosocial attachments in "The Sheriff of Kona" and "The Heathen."] All my life I had sought an ideal chum--such things as ideals are never obtainable,...
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From: American Literary Realism[(essay date fall 2008) In the following essay, Berliner claims that London's adventure and nature short stories function to express his socialist ideology and provide insight into the concept of socialistic Social...
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From: Studies in Popular Culture[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Hensley explores the pseudoscience of eugenics as it appears in Before Adam, which dramatizes the “breeding” of superior humans and demonstrates the social Darwinism of...