Wolf · The Call of the Wild

Author: Jack London
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This book is a collection of two of Jack London's representative works. The Sea Wolf depicts the experience of Van Weyden, who is captured by the sea wolf, Larson, the owner of a seal-hunting ship, and miraculously escapes from danger after a near-death struggle. Larson is "an excellent example of atavism, a purely primitive person, someone who came to the world before humans developed a moral nature," reflecting the of misapplying Darwin's theory of evolution to human society in a simplistic way in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Call of the Wild tells the story of a dog returning to savagery under the compulsion of its owner, portraying the life of a dog in the civilized world but also reflecting the human world.