... no gold. While London was in Alaska he read wildly works of materialistic philosophers. He was a hard living adventurer. This environment of the Klondike stretched for the opening pages of White Fang as brutal, relentless, and destructive of everything soft and gentle. This tests his imaginatively ideas about life (Bryan 1814). In Jack London's literary career he was known as a novelist, short ... . Many additional works have been published posthumously. His most notable books include The Call of the Wild (originally entitled "The Sleeping Wolf") which was published in 1903, The Iron Hee...

• Word Count: 1996
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... a quest for gold. To survive on the outer edges of civilization, Buck must endure many hardships, including bitter cold, the savagery of a life rules by the laws of club and fang, and the lure of a strange age-old call. I think that The Call of the Wild is an exciting book that keeps the reader glued to the book in suspense waiting ... as if we are there when we read the following passage: "At the first step upon the cold surface, Buck's feet sank into a white mushy something very like mud. He sprang back with a snort. More of this white stuff was falling through the air. he shook himse...

• Word Count: 541
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School