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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)


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    -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