Returning to the United States, he traveled throughout the country. In 1893 he joined a sealing cruise that took him as far as Japan. He later wrote about these experiences in The Cruise of the Dazzler (1902) and Tales of the Fish Patrol (1905). By the time he was sixteen he had been both an oyster pirate and a member of the Fish Patrol in San Francisco Bay. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. Jack London-his real name was John Griffith London-had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city.

Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Brandt.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This edition also includes an introduction by preeminent London scholar, Earle Labor, as well as a comprehensive biographical note on London's life and works by scholar and executive coordinator of the Jack London Society, Kenneth K. London’s narratives in this volume focus on issues of continuing relevance to contemporary readers, including the value of the wilderness, animal rights, socioeconomic oppression, and gender inequity.

This volume of London’s famed Northland novels also includes an early feminist story “The Night-Born,” and a pro-labor story “South of the Slot.” These works echo and enrich the themes of The Call of the Wild and White Fang with their unique emphases on the primordial, the instinctual, and the quest for social justice. White Fang, set in the frozen tundra and boreal forests of Canada’s Yukon territory, is the story of a wolf-dog hybrid struggling to survive in a human society every bit as brutal as the natural world. The Call of the Wild, London’s elemental masterpiece about a dog learning to survive in the wilderness, sees pampered pet Buck snatched from his home and set to work as a sled-dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. A bold mix of realism, allegory, adventure, and progressive politics, this collection features Jack London’s most profound and moving literary works

The call of the wild and white fang