olsieaa W Cha Dixon and Red\lagen ( FIRST PUBLISHING [7]8 many authors have done, ‘Jack Londen used his own ‘experiences to enrich his writing. But while other writers simply have called upon their pasts to produce fiction assembled from thinly veiled autobiography, London fashioned his unique stories from the knowledge he gained during an adventure-illed lit, London's most popular works, his short stories and novels of the Yukon, resulted from his travels and ‘encounters during an ill-aled allempl in 1897 to glean a fortune in the Klondike gold rush. These pieces are remarkable not only for their ‘natrative power, but for their insights into the social behavior of men and animals. The first of London's Yukon stories ‘began appearing in magazines in 1898; his first collection, The Son of the Wolf, was published in 1900. In quick succession, London's major novels of the Yukon appeared: The Call of the Wild (1903), White Fang (1906), Burning Daylight (1910), and Smoke Bellew (1912). Titing of the Victorian staleness that centinued to pervade most American fiction through the beginning of the twentieth century, readers rovelled in London's raw, often bloody, celebrations of the rapidly vanishing frontier. The novels quickly won popular acclaim for their spirit of adventure, courage, and individual struggle, and garneted critical renown for their perceptive portraits of the vigorous yet brutal character of nature. Today, Lencen is still recognized for his ability to craft stunning fiction that incorporated a variety of challenging philosophical concepts: Like many cf London's novels, The Call of the Wild is 2 fascinating weave. It isa spellbinding animal story, perhaps the best ever written; it is an excellent dramatization of the laws of nature; and if is an illuminating study of the beastly manners of civilized men and thé civilized manners of beasts. 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ONE HUNDRED ANE EDETY POUNDS DF FURY AT THe MAN.DOZEN THES HE CHUREED ANC AS OFTEN THE CLUB BROKE THE EMAREE AME MASHED HIM TOWN. EMAC MEVER BEEN STRUCK” WITHA CLI IN HOE LIFE, ANP O1P KOT UPERSTANPA | Fi fe i MB SENSES DAME BALK NE) 22 Ham, Bu WT Hes STREHIGTH, HELAY WHERE HEHAD FALLEN, F LEARNEP YOLR PLACE AN? T KNOW MINE, BE A G07 26 ANP ALL'LL 60 WELL. BE A BAP 708 ANG ILL WHALE THE be STUFFIN’ OUTA you. PF= TE GLUB WEA REVELATION, eis BEATEN A sracisurs apeceocnen OV gre Ae WAL | rot eee mesic Lan Teo Me MEF tae Witataien ache WP AT SUEY TUES THAT MONEY IASSED BETWEEN THEM THE STREAMERS. 100K" ONE DE MORE OF THE BOGS ANAY HATH THEM. BUCKS THE ZAME 1 THE FORM OFA LITTLE WEAZENE? MAN Who SEAT BROKEN ENELIGH, A PRESENT AT THAT! THE PACTE OF LIFE TOOK ON A PERCE ASPECT: AND Wilt © HE PACED THAT ASPECT UNCOWED, He PACED IT WhTH ALL THE LATENT EUINING OF HIS WATLIE ACLEEL. BUCK GAW MONEY PAGE BETHEEN THEM, ANP WAE NOT SLRPLISEP WHEN CURL Ve A COL NATEREP NENEDUNPLAND, ANP HE WERE LEP AWAY BV THE LITRE HAN.WAS CURLS ANC HE LOOKED AT RECE CIWS SEATTLE FLOM THE PECK OF THE MARWHAL, Ye Whe HE LAST HE SAW OF THE MAR SOUTALANE. AT IGE? STEP INTD THE WHITE MOSH. HE BERANE BALK WITHA SHORT. HE BUDOK Hil SELF, BUT MORE OF T FELL UEEM Hild. THE OMLDUERS LAREHEP LPROARIOUSLY,, ANP HE FELT ASHAMED? “leoer wig HE [auce’ ier cay OW THE OVER BEACH L888 PULSE OF THE PROPELLER, THOUGH ONE ON WAB LIKE ANOTHER, UZWAE APPARENT 12 BUCK z i Ss ee rg 7 lai = = AT LAST, ONE MORNING, fel HE PRORELLER WHS LIET ANE THENARHOAL WAS PERUACEE WITH ANY ATMOSPHERE OF EXCITE MET WH, FRET SNOW. WAS LICE A NIGHTIARE, EVERY Hie WAS FILLED With shock Avo sie PRIBE. HERE WAS NEITPER PEACE, NDR CELT, MOR A MOMENT E SAFETY.EVAONEVER SEEN DOES FIGHT AS THESE WOCEISH CREATURES FOUGHT. (7 WAS THE WOLP MANNER DF FUBNTING, 7D STRICE We LEAP AWAY CURLY Wis THE VICTIM. AWHTE SPITZBEREEN PAM AUTHSP TONBUE AND LAUGHED ABA}, ANP HOM WITHA BITTER ANP DEATH E88 HATRED. Ge AWE DVER THEGREAT EWILKDOT THE SAP ANP LONELY NORTH. FROM THAT MOMENT 810K HATED | ead VIDE, UBICH SUARCE FLEBIZOINGLV $0 THAT WAS THE WAY. NO FAIR PLAY. CHEE POWN, THAT WAS THE eM Je Vou, [45 HE war SEEN HORSES TO WORE. THE HALE GREED FRAN GCIs FASTENED LIPDM. Hh AW ARRANGEMENT CF STRAPS AUP BUCKLES. Bz ze. THOUGH HIB PIBNITY HAE SORELY HURT, HENAE 720 WISE 1D REBEL. ~ S THE NEXT MORNINE,, THEY WERE SWINGING UP) TOWARP? THE DYER CANON. IT WAS A HAG? RUN, UP THE CANON, THROUGH SHEEP CAME, VAST SCALES ANP THe TUNBERLINE..THIS FIRST THEET MARKED) BUEK AS EIT TO SURVWE We THE HOSTILE ENIEDN- MEM: ERY E97 107 STEAL DR JOY OF IT: BLT BECAUSE OF THE ELAMOR OF ie SroHt ACH. ee Nem TE PIP MET RDB OPENLY: OLIT STOLE ts SECRETLY ANP CUMMINGLY. OUT OF RESPECT FOR CLUB Atte FANE.eatcer wmncess Trancat me i gore CALLER Ane REST ING RAL ED HEN MEAT | Solaaer mips nea = | CAPENCES, (DICINE THEIR SATE Wie WILE WITH WRATH, HE BAGey THeblial, THE CAME, [| saetiine ane meena i) every UKELY PLACE, SUARLING PRIGHT™FLEW AT HTD PERISH Hilt THE (Ast WAS CAID iron) Heat AGAIN Ati? ABA, WHILE SEITZ SOLELY PiNtheP THE MANY — TES OPLENONE PIE, aes 1 Eee ’ Sat pe el tee seeventy, 9) sece ete, word i EQLAL RAGE, NV BLT FRANCOIS, UN SWERVING IN HEAP. VUSTICE, BROUGHT HES CASH POWH LOW BUCK [WITH ALL HIB MIGHT. BUCK, 70 WHOM AIRPLAY WAS A OREOTTEN COPE, LREMISE SPRANG UPON SPITZ.W798 PAVE THAT POLLDWED, | WHE Te COVERT HUTT OF BUEK, BUCk ETE CONTINUED TO i 3 PGENECALINGLEORTINATION FL WIERPERE BETHEGN SITE SPRANG UP ANE (NCREASER: THINES. Bur He ai? A LONGER WENT RIGHT. AMO THERE WAS CONTINUAL BICKER, HEREPT FRAN GOIE BUEN, FOE THE PLE LRIVER WAS CF THE LUE ANP EAT STCUGALE HE KMEW MUST TALE PLACE SOONER OR LATER. Bveey WIGHT, THEY LETEP A NOCTURNAL SONG, A Weer AND EERIE CHANT, WW WHICHIT WAS BUCK PELIEHT TD Settle HERE THERE WERE Gian ey AE TWAS AN OLE SDA Coenrteee (e8. ONE OF THE FUET. - BONES OF THE YOUNGER OCLE I ATAY HEN SONGS HERE SAP.EVEN DAVE FROM THE THE THEY PULLED HTD TAWSON, THEY DROPPED POMN A ever Bde 1 THE vumcons TEA! AND PULLER FOR EVEN AND SALT WATER. f i THE (NSIPTOUS REUDLT CEP BY BUCK HAD DESTROYER” THE SOLIDARITY OF THE TEAM. BLE CONDUCT APPRORHEP 6 | Mar Den BULLY, AND HE WAS Gin D Sunccbane UF ne cua awe rerteren | 4\ | aup eaunaerone Srtre tacraewene is | | tee MCZe Moe. : ATER SUPER, TUB TORNEP Ue A SNOW W S28 cawerr, ecuniveZer) ANE MIE ER. f (WA SECONP THE WHOLE TEAM WAS WELLL ERY. A HUNDRED VAROS AWAY WAS A CAME OF THE NORTE WEST POLICE WITH PIETY O22 HRD DINED THE Crise.HE O12 NDT CHECK HINEELE BUT BOWE NUON SPITZ AT BS HEELS. THe Polit Hick EASED AMEE S cho OF OELIBHT.VERY ANIMAL WHE MOTONLESS AS. THGLEH TURE?PERRAULT TOOK A HAND. BETWEEN THEM THEY BAW BUCK: ABBUT FOR THe BETTER PART OF AW HOLE. THEY CURBER HUM AND HS (THERE ANE MOTHERS BEFORE Hilt. HA LODK AT OAT BUCK. HEEM KEEL OAT SPITZ, eeu TINY TO TAKE VE JOB Lek SPRANE. LMS 1M A PURY, PRUNE || fan ecm ane STAN EINE HIS LACE. WE ANSWERED EVERY CUESE WITHA SNARE |B [TIME WAS FLY- ANE ECT DLT OF THENE REACH, ADVERTISING | | ING, AND THEY. PLAINLY THAT WHEN 118 DEBICE WAS MET HE \| | SHOULD HAVE WOULP COME I ANP BE BLOF. BEEN ON THE ae TRAIL AN Hoe aan, PRANGOIE SHRUBBE? His SPOULEER IMA SUEN THAT THEY WERE TEOMPHANTLY, AME SWUM Aci WD POSITION AT Il HE wear OF THe TEAM.[) WK E TRACED WERE FAZTENE?, THE SLED” PA) 2202N O07, AN? W17H GOTH MEN RUAN THEY WASHED OUT ON THE RWER TEAL. MEHL AS FRANGIE HAP FORE- WALLED BUCK, He POUND, Wee | [ATA BOUNP BUCK DDE UF TUE PAY WAS VET SOLE, THAT Pe CUTIES OF LEAPEREHIPL HEAD UNCERVALLUEE HE SHONED HNBELE THE SUPERIOR OF EVEN SPITZ, OF WHOM FRMIGOIS HAP WEVER SEEN AN ERUAL. Tie TEAM RECOUERED [7 OLD THE SOLWARITV, AMZ ONCE MDEE THE LES LEAPED AS LNE TOE IN THE SELLE WEEK THEY TEEPE WHITE Bee AN? COOTER = BOUH THE SEA SLOPE WITH | THe Lisi Te oF BKAGHAY AT THEIR FEET. THEY COVERED THE THIRTY MULE RUER IONE PAY GOING OUT MEAT HAP. TAKEN THE TEN CAVE Come th. WW ON RON THEV MAE A SITY MILE PASH FecontFOR THREE GAYS PERREAULT ANP FRANC LIS THREW CHESTS UP ANE POWN THE MAIL STREET OF SKAGWAY AND WERE VELUBED A SCOTCH MALE BEEEO TOOK CHARGE OF HIM AND Hie MATES, AN? NW LEMOANY WITH A DOZEN OTHER FOE TEAME HE STARTEL WERT CAE OFFICIAL REE:OT THERE WERE OFF CUAL OROERS. FEEH BATEHESOFHIEON MR Ma] SAY Mss WERE TOTAE THE ip PLACES OF THOSE WORTHLESS [A (2e THE TRAIL. i 2 <——— oe ag) THE WORTHLESS ONES PRG) WERE 70 66 SOP. | I erreneenaa ( ee cole Tho AAP GOLIGHT THEM, PARNESES ANE ALL || ea sows. Mego Wf re we araeresee : penonegas Mil Sate nease : AETER THD ERFORTS, THEY STOP STILL, PANTING, THE WHIE WAS WHBTLNE SAVAEELY, WHEN MERCEDES INTERFERED. Gy vaUERN eee THEM coe AY meury tor sy | BREAKING QUT THAT ser.voxane 1s wales Files STRUEELEP FRANTIC ALLY UNDER THE AWN OF BLOWS. 8s RW 3 ireer acre avese NY Pe RTH TUMCHED NO SLOPED STELPLY MTD THE THE OoGs WERE ANGEV BECAUEE OF THE ILL. TREATMENT Ani? THE WET LOA FRU HAVE REGLIREP AN EXPERINCE HAW | | GOGE WAS RAEI. GaP TH TOE HEN BLED UPGEH Lamont Ni & = = | RaW ANE THE 7EAM| HAL HAS War = | race QWer Hts LEAR suet A MAN | p= : Eo SeWDLNBH BLANKETS Fe A ROTEL. HALF AEM AMY 18 TOD Mileb, “THROW AWAY THAT TENT AN? ALL TROBE PIETER.” ANE SO (7 WENT, THE. WEXDEABLE EL AUN: TON OF THE SUPER: rious. 1D REACH DAWSON. *SHE CREP GENEEAL, ANP gsvecatrm mercuiae | DER EACH P/GLARPEP Tone. PAUP HEL MEAT 2 GOAT EEN Mie oCTeeT Su opreive boos ESE Bevilenit WE TEAM LP pauiereen. MM THE WATLRE OF ARLTIC. TeAveL THERE NAS AeeASOY FR WHY FOURTEEN FOES SHOLLP NOT CRAG OVE SLEC ANE THAT WAS THAT ONE SLEC BUT THEY HASTENED IT By OUEPEE ONE, BENEINE THE OAC NERRER WHEN tiirEe- PRET INe MOLL? COMMENCE,|p) ev cir COUN EVEN HE [THEIR OWN IMABILITY TO GET UNPER- S| ee ee || WAY EARLIER IN THE MORNING PRE TREE 1D INEREASE THE VENTED THEM PROM TRAVELLING PAYS TRAVEL. LONEER HOURS. [N07 QULY OP THEY NOT KNOW. HON 72 WORK CD83, BUT THEY DONO RUOW HOW 72 WORE THEMSELVES, WAS A BIMPLE MATTER ; 10 IVE THE DOES LESS TEEA SAYING EF THECLUNTEY F200: BLT IT WAS MNOS - THAT AW OUTSIOE C5 STALVES ELE TD MAKE THE HOES. TB DEATH ON THE RATION OF TRAVEL FASTER. ACY. * BD THe GK ATEWE TOES UNOER BLK COULD OD WO LESS. THA HE ON MALE THE RATION OF A HOLY. DiDeN ETFS ELAMoLIe ANP ROMANCE, ACETIC TRAVEL BECAME TOTHEM A REALITY TOD HARE (2 Tob MANHOOD AUP Via ANHOOE. | SENTLENESSES OF THE SOUTHLAND HAP GALLEN AWAY FROM THE THREEOGUABLEL WAS THE GHEY Wha THEY WERE EVER BBD WEAEY DD. THE GHOSTLY WINTER SILENCE WAP EWEN WAY 72 Tit. BREAT SPRING MUEMLNC OF AWACEN- We LIFE. WT WAS HEART AREA ING, One Blicw HEART Whe LUEREAKABLE. THE MAH he THE REP SWEATER HAP PRWEO THAT. HE PULLED WHEN FE EDUET; WHEN AE COLL ND Lpnaaee PULL HE FELL DOWN ANE REMAINED Bowl TLL BONE FROM WHE OR CLUE DELVE HUN HIE FEET AGAIN. (LATE ROM BENEATH THE: SUN ATE FEE ABOVE.AWE DF IT. LIKE WAVPARERE TO PEAIH, STAGGERED THE THD MEN, WOMAN ANE THE HUE KE: B UT NEITHER WOES NOR RUMANE WERE THORNTON CAMP AT THE MOUTH OE TH WER. THE BOTTOMS. of LIKELY To Pear OUT AT ANY MOMENT. I WOULONT B16K WY CARCASS ON THAT ROTTEN (CE FoR ALL ALL THE SAME, WE'LL 20 ONTO CAWSON.HE STARK OF LIFE WAL HAD ND FIGHT LEPT 1 UOTHIN BUCK. PLICRECEP Hit. BESIDES, His Hallas (om ANP WENT COW. WERE FLLL WITH bis Sis TEk, gl 7 iF you a SIRE THis 706 AGAIN, DLL KILL a7 A FEW AIMED LATER, THEY PLLED DUT, THE FOES LUPINE ANE STAGEERINGLEK ANP THERNION HEARO HEREEDES. BERLAM, THEN BAW ODES AND HMANS. PUSECPEAR, THE BOTTOM HAP PROMEE BU OF TE FRAIL 72 Ger WELL. [ANP HERE, gue ‘ys | SLOWLY WON BACK |_ be sreeweTy iB ee LOVE, GENLINE PASSIONATE |p LOVE WAS BUCKE FOR Irie ORT THE HE WDULE BALE AT THE (dtd BY THE Hage HIS MEART. SPONGE DT Boe WEE Cae Bite egite We wecies | | REM me siren ie et See EN OG ISMUACEE VB aur erice se yin re i Bite faes of tre GOCE 13 Cre Meet vecnaie: | Selae. atoneSeCosee orderPCNEES, its AND PETE, ARRWED DY THE CONG EXPECTED RAPT, BlicK CEPUBED TD WOTILE THEM TILL Me LEARNED THEY WERE CLOSE TD EMEN WERE OF THE SAME \ eee CARGE TWME AS THORNTON, anit HEV E CNDERSIOOP BLICK ANE His: WAY. WY 7 WAS AT CELE CITY, ERE PE WEAR om Q) 48 207, THAT PETES APACE HENMIONS), DY WERE REALITED. "BACK" BURTON, A HAN EVI TEMPERED AYO MALICIOUS, W STRUCK THORNTON. 10 Be THE MAN THAT LAYE MANS ON YoU WHILE AES KROUNZ. THAT TAY WS MAME SPREAD PHELLIGH EVERY CAMP IN ALASKA THE MAN SULCEEDED OWL WM EIEY BADER ING 7 ANP HIS THRDAT WAS TORN OPEN.THEY ATTACHED THE LINE WTR W wenn ee THEY WAP REE SHUBEINE LEAT 2 SUCKE WELK ANP SHOVE EELS. — BUCK SPRANG 1H OW THE INSTANT. EPRANELINE, SLPFOEA TINE RAECING LER THE JABGED BOTTOM, SHASHING AGAINST KOEKS ANP BNAGE, THEY VEEREP IN 7D THE BANE.MY IDG CAN START A SLE? Witt FIVE HUNDREP POUNDS ae BP BUCK CAN STALT A TeousANe RUNS RHE, HE HAP MO THOUSAND DOLLARS: NOR HAP HANS OR UAT MINTER. AT SAWN, BLL PERPORMED ANOTHER EXPLOIT, MOT SO WERLIC BUT ONE THAT FLUT HIE NAME MANY MOTE HEE GHER® ON THE TOTEM POLE OF ALASKAN FARE P08 = Wis BEBLBHT ABOUT BVA CONVER SATION IN THE EL RAD SAL DOU. AME WALK ITA HUNDRED VARES. WELL I’ve 60T A THOUSAND DOLLARS AVS HE CAN’T. SLED DUITEIVE WITH TWENTY FIETY- COUN SACKS OF FLOUR ON TT. PONT LET ZMAT wiwwer You.QOLLUAWTE WTO THE | T WE ELPORARD EMPTIEP ITE STREET 10 Sb Te TEST. THE OCP? WENT UP 1D THREE = to gWe AchiNeT BUCK. [Ee WATIHEWSONE SLED WAP BEEN STANP™ VAs Lae HOURS. ANE IN THE INTENSE YY) cee mae eennees tae eozeN FAST 12 THE HARP-HEKED SHOW. GREAT THNE FR SOHN THORNTON. BUEK HAP CAUGHT THE CONTAGION OF EXCITEMENT, AWE HE FELT IN SOME WAY THAT HEMUST FO A iE HE Cebu? FELL SILENT: ONLY COLULP) BE MEME THE VICES OF THE EAM BLERS VAINLY OFFERING TWO 7D ONE.THE LOA? BEIVERED, ANP FROM | ONCE TE RUNES AROSE A CRISP ERACKLINE eS a THE ERACKL NE TURNED INTO A SNAPPINE, AUP THE SLED WAS BROKEN DUT. HEN GASPED ANE BEGAN 1D BREATHE. AGAIN, ENAWARE THAT FOCA MOMENT THEY HH? CEASEE? 1D BREATHE.WEN BUCK EARNED SIXTEEN HIN PREP POLLAGE IN FWE MONTES (22 JOHN THORHTON, HE MADE TT OESIBLE FOR His MASTER TD .JOLEMEY. WITH Hts PRETHERS ITO THE EAST AFTER A ABLED LOST AINE. CABIN MINE. THE Lost. ‘GAD, 218! CABS TLL GWE YOU A THOUSAND FoR HIM, Sig, A THOLIGANG. S18" - TWELVE Hy PREP, Sie vou GAM 6a TO HELL, SIR. ITS THE SETI CANDO Foe YOU, SIR. EACH DAY THEY WORKEP EARNEP THEM THOUSANOS OF DOLLARS WW CLEAN PUST ANP NUEGETS, ANE THEY HORKED EVERY OAV. SPRING CAME ON DICE MORE, ANE AT THE ECE | hae WEEKS AT A TIME THEY OF THERE WANCERING WRULO HOLE OW ETEAPILY 2 BR | rier Coun Wa? THE WOULD CAMP. i SHALLOW PLACE WHERE ANP FOR WEEKS UPON ENP ff C287 asin, sur A THeV THERE WAS NOTHINE FOR THE GOES 70 22, AND BUCK SPENT OMG HOLES LISI BY THE FUE. THE CALL SDUNOED FROM THE PEPTHS OF THE FOREST, CULL (MG HOR WITHA BREA THE GOLD SHOWED bike BUTTER.26 Tui PAVE ANE M/EHTS BLT AFTER THD PAYS THECALL Bice: Wetee LEFT CAM! SEGA TO SOUNP HORE IN EVER LET THORNTON. PERIOUSLY THAN EVER. LT OF fle SUBMIT. HEKILEP TD EAT, to: LM WAN TONES S BLE PROPERED Te. FAT| VANE MEAT He REMAINER BONE KEL MING MAE Soee™ | (WE TUM ANP TWRN ABOUT, THEN, PESTER, FRESH ANP STRONE, HE TURNED HB PACE TONARD CAMP ANP SOHN TON. HE CAME UPON A FRESH TAL THAT SENT HB NEO iE RICPLUG NP BRISTLE [Te BELLVINE FORWARE 12 7HE EDOE OE THE CLEARING, He ROUNO HANS, |e ViVE OV Hie PALE, FEATHEREDWHEN THEY HEARD A FEAR = (ia kememie aie San EEHINE LTO THEM oa TRAE Toe tke oF WitieH THEY OME even ate SeroRe. T HE VEEWATE WERE LMC ING THEY WERE NO MATCH AT ALL, Weee IT Wor roe Wie Tete Ageows ANC ACS, ANETHE CEL MIP WHAT WZ COMTAINED: ANP OF CONTAMWER SOHN THORNTON, WOT THe COMING OE MIGHT BiiCK BECAME ALWE TD A STIRRING DENEW LIFE ted THE UK SLENTED EVERY PETAIL OF THORNTON DESPERATE STRUBELE, (FLEPT A GREAT VOIP ON Ath, SOMEWHAT AKIN TD ANE IN THE CENTE OF E CLEARING SIDED BLCK, WAITINE THEIR COMING. ae af BAe BROKEN. MAN AN? THE CLAIMS OF MAN NO LONGER BOLUM? HUA.| meaee sere: THEY TELL OF A BHOST DDE THAT HAS GREAT CLINE, STEAL INE FROM THER, CAMPS, RRERINE THEME TRAP, SLAVING [WEIE COES, AND CEPYING THEIR Reaves? HUNTERS. ANG THERE 12 A CERTAIN VALLEY witch WHE YEEMATS NEVER ENTER IN THE SUMMER, HOWEVER, THEE (2 ONE VISITOR. B) 8 CROSSES ALONE FROM THE TMB ER LAO ANE COMES DOWN Te AN OPEN SPACE AONE THE TREES. HERE A YELLOW STREAM FLOWS FROM ROTTING. MODSELIPE SACKE ANE SINCE IND HOWL IE DUCE. Lone ANE Mace: Filet. 1S GREAT THROAT A-BELLOW AS HE SINGS THE SOME OE A MOUNEER WORE».(CK LONDON was born in ‘San Francisco on January 12, 1876. He was raised in poverty along the Oakland waterfront; to help support his family, London sold newspapers and performed odd jobs. At the age of 14, London quit school and went to work full time in a cannery. His love of boys’ adventure fiction influenced him to turn pirate at the age of 16, when he used his sloop Razzle Dazzle to raid the oyster beds in San Francisco Bay. In an example of the contradictions which were later to inform his fiction, the next year found him working alongside the harbor police to stop such piracy. After spending a year at s@a on a Sealing expedition and traveling the country as a tramp, London finished high schoo! and briefly attended the University of California. In 1897, he joined the Klondike gold rush. Although success in the gold fields eluded him, the experience gave him valuable insight into the rugged individualists who populated the raw frontier. London returned to Oakland and took up writing; he sold his first short story, “To the Man on the Trail," to the Overland Monthly in 1898. By 1900, he had published enough of his tales of the Yukon to warrant a collection, The Son of the Wolf, London's stories of the vigorous and often brutal life in the far north found a ready audience, and his style — raw, excitable, but always readable — was successful among both young and old. His fame was assured when The Call of the Wild was published 10 great acclamation in 1903. A passionate believer in socialism and a champion of the working class — views advocated in such novels as The fron Heel (1908) and The Valley of the Moon (1913) — London nevertheless also subscribed to Nietzche’s cult of "red blood.” Much of Lendon's fiction, including The Sea Wolf (1904) and The Abysmal Brute (1913), is populated by characters stripped of social conventions to reveal the inhuman brute that lies beneath the veneer of civilization, Tho Darwinian concept of survival ol the fittest is also a recurrent theme in his fiction. London published 51 books — all well received — during his 17-year writing career, but his later works never achieved the popularity of The Call of the Wild. Frustrated by what he perceived as his failure, and plagued by bouts of alcoholism and rheumatism, London died in 1916 at the age of 40. In a eulogy, his daughter, Joan, described London — along with Stephen Crane and Frank Norris — as “the three young pioneers who at the turn of the century had blazed the literary trails into modern American literature.” CARDO VILLAGRAN was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1938. As a youth, he studied and emulated the works of great American comics artists like Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) and Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon). Villagran worked for years as an assistant to some of South America's greatest comic illustrators. Strking out on his ‘own, he formed an art studio and created some of Europe's and South America's best-known illustrated characters. Villagran’s art has been featured in a wide range of popular titles, including Batman, Star Trek, Evangeline, Atari Force, and his own graphic novel, Ka-Zar. Villagran continues to reside in Argentina. Jd@®.HARLES DIXON was born in “Philadelphia in 1954. In the comics field, he has written for the fantasy favorite, Conan the Barbarian, and has contributed to Airboy, Moon Knight, Winter World, and Alien Legion . The co-creator of Evangeline, Dixon also has written several Raggedy Ann and Winnie the Pooh children’s books.CLA ‘UST ee he Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular story: the poignant tale of the noble Buck’s perilous life as a sled dog in the frigid Yukon during the Klondixe gold rush, Snatched from the warm hearth of a kindly owner, Buck is thrust into a strange and savage world, forced eventually to choose between civilization and the beckoning wilderness. A vivid re-creation of rugged life in the frozen wastes of the frontier, The Call of the Wild is a portrait of courage, an insightful study of the beastly manners of civilized men and the civilized manners of beasts. The magnificent art of Ricardo Villagran illuminates this heartwarming adventure tale, one of the finest animal stories ever written. Watch for these other great CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED! The Raven and Other Poems — Edgar Allan Poe Moby Dick — Herman Melville Through the Looking-Glass — Lewis Carroll Rip Van Winkle — Washington Irving Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronté atest Expectations — Charles Dickens The Fall of the House of Usher — Edgar Allan Poe The Island of Dr. Moreau — H.G. Wells The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson OPLPP LP PPP PPP PPP PLP LLL LLLP 7183100375" 4 | ISBN O-425-12030-