![]() ![]() He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. ![]() John Griffith Chaney (1876-1916), better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure." This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of The Call of the Wild & White Fang features an afterword by Sam Gilpin.ĭesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering in the wilderness before being tamed by an American and taken to live in California.Įxtraordinary both for the vividness of their descriptions and the success with which they imagine life from a non-human perspective, Jack London's classics of children’s literature are two of the greatest and most popular animal stories ever written. " The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. Altnernate cover edition can be found here. ![]()
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