Wolf. The Call of the Wild Fine

Author: Jack London (USA)
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Jack London's works have been commented on as: vibrant, healthy, and optimistic; others consider them a combination of a civilized mind and primal strength, a voice of scientific evolutionism, representing vitality and courage. He excels at depicting primal violence and individual struggle, which is particularly prominent in his arctic and ocean novels. The Sea Wolf and The Call of the Wild are respectively the representative works of ocean and arctic novels. This book is a collection of Jack London's two masterpieces. The Sea Wolf portrays the experience of Van Weyden, who is controlled by the sea wolf hunter Larson after a shipwreck and miraculously escapes from danger. Larson is "a prime example of atavism, a purely primitive person, one who came to the world before humans developed a moral nature," reflecting the trend in the late 19th and early 20th centuries of mistakenly applying Darwin's theory of evolution to human society in a simplistic manner. The Call of the Wild tells the story of a dog returning to savagery under the compulsion of its owner, depicting not just a dog but also reflecting the human world.