Authors: Jack London
ISBN-13: 9781420929027, ISBN-10: 142092902X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Digireads.com
Date Published: January 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jack London (1876-1916) was an American writer who produced two hundred short stories, more than four hundred nonfiction pieces, twenty novels, and three full-length plays in less than two decades. His best-known works include The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang.
A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny. This 1904 maritime classic depicts the clash of materialistic and idealistic cultures with gritty realism and sublime lyricism.
Although American literati don't read this adventure, it remains a masterpiece of Naturalist fiction.