... and his friendship with a pack of wolves. Now Buck must decide between staying with man or answering the call of the wild to become a leader of the pack. 1903 The People of the Abyss "The People of the Abyss" gives a firsthand account of the poor, the menial workers, the homeless, and the perpetually unemployed among whom he lived in the slums of London's East End at the turn of the century. It is a sensitive portrayal of daily life on the margins of society that culminates in a searing ... indictment of modern industrialism's mistreatment of workers and the poverty-stricken and its pro...

• Word Count: 1888
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• Grade Level: High School

... shown him that life was a brutal struggle for survival. He expressed that in his books. Jack wrote the Call of the Wild, which he sold for $2,000. He later wrote and published the Sea Wolf for which he earned $4,000. He became one of the most popular, and best paid writers of his time. Jack and Charmian bought and developed Beauty Ranch. Jack wanted a place for people to come ... one is Call of the Wild. Call of the Wild is an example of the contradictory theories of individualism and socialism. This romance and beast fable is the most famous and widely read of Jack London's novels. It ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... States and Canada. In 1895 he went to be a gold miner in the Yukon Territory hoping to find some riches. Later on, Jack London ran for mayor of Oakland, California, on a socialist ticket. Jack London wrote numbers of great stories. He wrote Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, The Game, White Fang, A Daughter of the Snow, The Cruise of the Dazzler, Before Adam, and many more short stories (Garrett 195). In Jack London ... 's later life he died of an overdose of morphine, November 22, 1916, in Glen Ellen, California. He was ... ...

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... . He was prolific: fifty one of his books and hundreds of his articles had been published. He had written thousands of letters. 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 Heel, White Fang, The Sea-Wolf (originally entitled "Mercy of the Sea"), The People of the Abyss (a sociological treatise about the slums of London, England), John Barleycorn ... Martin Eden, and The Star Rover. His short story, "To Build A Fire", is considered to be an all-tim...

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