Modern Library Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century
In 6th grade, our teacher (Miss Bock) made us do diaramas for our book
reports. One kid made a diarama of Call of the Wild that was amazing.
You looked through an aperture at the end of the shoebox and there were
trees & the dog & snow drifts, the whole nine yards. Meanwhile,
for my book, Jonathon Livingston Seagull, I pasted blue paper in the bottom
of a box & glued in a seagull. I believe our grades reflected
our respective efforts.
Reading Call of the Wild as an adult, one realizes that it's not actually
written for kids. Seemingly the tale of a dog in Alaska, it is actually
an argument that our primitive natures lurk just beneath a thin veneer
of civilization.
The fact that it can be read & enjoyed by youngsters is just a bonus.
(Reviewed:)
Grade: (A)
Websites:
Jack London Links:
-Jack London's Ranch Album
Book-related and General Links:
-London,
Jack (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
-The
Jack London Collection
-Jack
London, his life and books (Jack London State Historic Park)
-Jack London's Ranch Album
-Jack London
Main Page
-Jack London
at Cetenary College of LA
-PAL:
Perspectives in American Literature: A Research and Reference Guide Chapter
6: Late Nineteenth Century - Jack London (1876-1916)
-BIO:
Jack London (1876-1916) original name John Griffith Chaney (kirjasto)
-Literary
Research Guide: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
-ETEXT:
Archives of many works including journalism
-ETEXT:
The Call of the Wild (1903)
-ETEXT:
The Sea Wolf
-ANNOTATED
ETEXTS: (Self Knowledge)
-ONLINE
STUDY GUIDE : The Call of the Wild by Jack London
(SparkNote by Debra Grossman)
-ESSAY:
THE PHILOSOPHY OF JACK LONDON (Joseph Sciambra, Sonoma State University)
-ESSAY:
Call of the Wild (Henry Veggian)
-ESSAY:
Jack London on the Great War (Michael E. Hanlon, Trenches on the Web)
-ESSAY:
Jack London: Superman unmasked (Bridgman, Joan, Contemporary Review;
March 1998)
-BIOGRAPHICAL
ESSAY: A short life intensely lived: The adventure of Jack London (Harmon,
BIOGRAPHY Magazine)
-REVIEW:
of THE LETTERS OF JACK LONDON Volume One:1896-1905. Volume Two: 1906-1912.
Volume Three: 1913-1916 (E.L. Doctorow, NY Times Book Review)
-REVIEW:
of Jack London, Hemingway and the Constitution Selected Essays, 1977-1992
By E. L. Doctorow (CHRISTOPHER LEHMAN-HAUPT, NY Times)
-ESSAY:
FREEDOM ,NECESSITY AND DOGS I HAVE KNOWN (Leigh Hafrey, NY Times Book
Review)
GENERAL
-ESSAY:
The Politics and Aesthetics of Art (Berdichevsky, Norman, Contemporary
Review)
-REVIEW:
INVENTING THE DREAM California Through the Progressive Era. By Kevin Starr
(Wallace Stegner, NY Times Book Review)
-ESSAY:
ONE TOO MANY FOR THE MUSE (J. Anthony Lukas, NY Times Book Review)
-ESSAY:
AMERICAN WRITERS SEEN THROUGH A SOVIET GLASS (THEODORE SHABAD,
NY Times Book Review)
If you like The Call of the Wild, try:
Adams, Richard
-Watership
Down
Dickey, James
-Deliverance
Farwell, Byron
-Burton:
A Biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton
Forbarth, Peter
-The Last Hero
Harrison, William
-Mountains of the Moon
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