![]() ![]() Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog." Enjoy our useful The Call of the Wild Study Guide, and visit our retrospective of Jack London images on Pinterest. "The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage." "Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." His best-selling book during his lifetime was his 1910 novel Burning Daylight. The novel's tone is often dark, and despite being considered juvenile literature by some. Telling the story of Buck, a domesticated dog whose wild instincts begin to kick-in while serving as a sled dog in the treacherous Yukon. London's most famous short story, particularly popular in both middle- and high school language arts classes, is To Build a Fire. The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most popular book and is considered by many to be his best. The manner in which he chose to work contributed to those accusations he bought plots for stories and novels from a young Sinclair Lewis and he used incidents read in newspapers as material for his stories. He was prodigious writer producing over 500 works and was often accused of plagiarism. London became a well-known writer and was one of the first to achieve true financial success from his writings. It would takeĪ deep plummet to reach bottom in the Erie County Pen, and I do but skim lightlyĪnd facetiously the surface of things as I there saw them." The ways of the world and the awful abysses of human degradation. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were unthinkable to me until I saw them, and I was no spring chicken in I say 'unprintable' and in justice I must also say 'unthinkable'. "Man-handling was merely one of the very minor unprintable horrors of the ErieĬounty Pen. ![]()
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