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Authors: Jack London, Lucy Corvino (Illustrator), Oliver Ho (Abridged by), Arthur Pober (Afterword), Jack London
ISBN-13: 9781402712746, ISBN-10: 140271274X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Date Published: March 2005
Edition: Modern Retelling

Author Biography: Jack London

Book Synopsis

Expertly retold to appeal to second to fourth graders, as well as older reluctant readers, each of the beautiful, high-quality books in the Classic Starts series is a literary treasure.

	About This Series
	Introduction	1
	A Note on the Text	11
Pt. 1	The Call of the Wild	13
Pt. 2	Jack London, "Batard"	79
Pt. 3	Letters of Jack London	93
	To Anna Strunsky, Jan. 21, 1900	95
	To Houghton Mifflin Company, Jan. 31, 1900	97
	To Cloudesley Johns, Jan. 6, 1902	99
	To George P. Brett, March 10, 1903	101
	To George P. Brett, March 25, 1903	102
	To Anna Strunsky, Oct. 13, 1904	103
	To George P. Brett, Dec. 5, 1904	104
	To C. F. Lowrie, Jan. 13, 1911	105
	To Ralph Kasper, June 25, 1914	106
Pt. 4	The Cultural Context of The Call of the Wild: Jack London's Klondike	107
	"Gold Creek and Gold Town"	109
	"Jack the Giant St. Bernard"	127
Pt. 5	Selected Early Reviews	133
	"A Reader's Report for The Call of the Wild"	135
	Anonymous Review	136
	"Jack London's Book The Call of the Wild: It Is More Than a Rattling Good Dog Story - It Is an Allegory of Human Struggles and Aspirations"	140
	"Reviews: The Call of the Wild"	142
	"A Review of The Call of the Wild" by Jack London	146
	"Books New and Old"	147
	"Jack London's One Great Contribution to American Literature"	148
	"To the Editor of the Independent"	150
Pt. 6	Critical Essays 1966-1996	153
	"The Romantic Necessity in Literary Naturalism: Jack London"	155
	"Jack London's Mondo Cane: The Call of the Wild and White Fang"	158
	"Jack London's Naturalism: The Example of The Call of the Wild"	170
	"The Call of the Wild": Parental Metaphor"	181
	"A Romantic Novel"	185
	"The Doppelganger and the Naturalist Self: The Call of the Wild"	190
	"'Congested Mails': Buck and Jack's 'Call'"	213
	Works Cited	245
	For Further Reading	253

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