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THE CALL OF THE WILD WHITE FANG AND OTHER STORI...

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  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. 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. 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. 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 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. Brandt. For more than seventy years  Penguin has been the leading publisher of
classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1 700 titles  Penguin Classics
represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and
disciplines. 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.

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