The Call of the Wild

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The Call of the Wild is a classic 1903 adventure novel by Jack London that follows a domesticated dog’s brutal struggle for survival and transformation in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American literature work
adventure novel
novel
adaptedInto The Call of the Wild (1923 film)
The Call of the Wild (1935 film)
The Call of the Wild (1972 film)
The Call of the Wild (2020 film)
various television adaptations
author Jack London
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter Charles
Hal
John Thornton
Mercedes
Spitz
firstPublicationForm serial
firstPublisher The Macmillan Company
surface form: Macmillan
firstSerializationVenue The Saturday Evening Post
firstSerializationYear 1903
genre adventure fiction
animal fiction
survival fiction
hasIllustrationsBy Charles Livingston Bull
Philip R. Goodwin
includedIn American literary canon
influenced later dog-centered adventure fiction
initialSetting Santa Clara Valley
surface form: Santa Clara Valley, California
literaryMovement naturalism
realism
mainCharacter Buck
narrativePerspective third-person
originalLanguage English
plotElement Buck becomes a sled dog in the Yukon
Buck develops a bond with John Thornton
Buck fights and defeats Spitz
Buck is kidnapped from a California estate
Buck ultimately answers the call of the wild
protagonistSpecies dog
publicationYear 1903
publisherCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
settingLocation Yukon Territory
settingPeriod Klondike Gold Rush (1897–1898)
surface form: Klondike Gold Rush
theme instinct and primitivism
loyalty
master–dog relationship
nature versus civilization
survival
violence

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Jack London notableWork The Call of the Wild
John Griffith Chaney notableWork The Call of the Wild
John Griffith Chaney hasSignatureWork The Call of the Wild
Chaney notableWorkOfBearer The Call of the Wild
White Fang followsWork The Call of the Wild
White Fang relatedWork The Call of the Wild
John notableWork The Call of the Wild
subject surface form: John Griffith Chaney
John notableWork The Call of the Wild
subject surface form: John Griffith Chaney
this entity surface form: The Call of the Wild and Other Stories
Viking publisherOf The Call of the Wild
Rei Momo hasTrack The Call of the Wild
Naturalism hasKeyWork The Call of the Wild
subject surface form: Naturalism (literature)