The Call of the Wild

JACK LONDON WAS born on January12,1876,in san Francisco,California,as John Griffith Chaney.His mother,Flora Wellman,was a teacher and spiritualist,and his father,Willian left them not long after,and Jack took his stepfather's last name ,London.The family moved to Oakland and ,by the time he was ten,London was an avid reader,checking books out of the public library.London left school at age thirteen to work a number of odd jobs-as a cannery worker ,sailor ,oyster pirate,and fish patroller.
In1893,unemloyed workers marched in protest against the econormic crisis,and London,age seventeen,joined them.Arrested for vagerancy,he spent a month in jail.When he was released,he resolved to get his education.He earned his high school equivalency degree in a year and enrolled in the Univer-sity of California at Berkeley,where he read voraciously.London embraced the wroks of Darwin,Nietzsche,and Marx and became a socialist.In1897,he dropped out to join the gold rush in the Klondike region of Alaska and Canada.

Chapter One INTO THE PRLMITIVE
Chapter Two THE LAW OF CLUB AND FANG
Chapter Three THE DOMINANT PRIMORDIAL BEAST
Chapter Four WHO HAS WON TO MASTERSHIP
Chapter Five THE TOIL OF TUACE AND TRAIL
Chapter Six FOR THE LOVE OF A MAN
Chapter Seven THE SOUNING OF THE CALL