Call of the Wild: A Jack London Classic Novel

Written by Jack London

Narrated by Shane Patrick Irvine

Call of the Wild is one of Jack London's more popular works. His 1903 Call of the Wild was an avenue of escape for just about every shoe clerk, haberdasher, bank clerk, or laborer to live a vicarious dream of adventure from their armchair. It takes the nascent adventurer to a world that is better read about than experienced first-hand. The character of Buck changes through a series of owners and ends with a powerful individualist that commands respect as he returns to his ancestral roots.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shane Patrick Irvine
• Release date: Feb 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9798368997186

Jack London

Jack London was born in San Francisco on January 12th 1876, the unwanted child of a spiritualist mother and astrologer father. He was raised by Virginia Prentiss, a former slave, before rejoining his mother and her new husband, John London. Largely self-educated, the teenage Jack made money stealing oysters and working on a schooner before briefly studying at the University of Berkeley in 1896. He left to join the Klondike Gold Rush a year later, a phenomenon that would go on to form the background of his literary masterpieces, The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Alongside his novel writing London dabbled in war reportage, agriculture and politics. He was married twice and had two daughters from his first marriage. London died in 1916 from complications of numerous chronic illnesses.