Buck begins to spend nights in the forest, drawn by his need to hunt 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 propensity for transferring wealth to the rich. .
1904 The Faith of Men.
1904 The Sea Wolf.
1905 War of the Classes It is a collection of essays that explain London's conversion, explore and define the classic struggle between labor and management, and remain a telling indictment of those social injustices that still exist.
1905 The Game On the eve of their wedding, twenty-year old Jack Fleming arranges a secret ringside seat for his sweetheart to view her only rival: the "game". Through Genevieve's apprehensive eyes, we watch the prizefight that pits her fair young lover, "the Pride of West Oakland," against the savage and brutish John Ponta and that reveals as much about her own nature, and Joe's, as it does about the force that drives the two men in their violent, fateful encounter. Responding to a review that took him to task for his realism, Jack London wrote, "I have had these experiences and it was out of these experiences, plus a fairly intimate knowledge of prize-fighting in general that I wrote "The Game". With this intimate realism, London took boxing out of the realm of disreputable topics and set is on a respectable literary course that extends from A.J. Liebling to Ernest Hemingway to Joyce Carol Oates. The familiarity of London's boxing writing testifies to its profound influence on later literary commentators on the sport, while the story told by "The Game" remains one of the most powerful and evocative portraits ever given of prizefighters in the grip of their passion.
