On the one hand, Jack London had been trying to make a living as a writer for five years before The Call of the Wild, and was doing so not just out of a desire to express himself, but to support his mother and his own family.
He wrote a story, people liked it – he got lucky. But when reviewers claimed it as an allegorical fable that touched the deepest elements of the human condition, London accepted the interpretation, but insisted that it had been unconscious. It was originally intended just as a story about a dog, a companion piece to one called Bâtard. Of course it is an allegory – civilisation versus the old primordial instinct for survival at any price – but for pure excitement and adventure it has no equal. How Buck survives the rule of club and fang is a classic, once misguidedly described as a children’s book because it is narrated by a dog. As brutal as his successive masters are, the pack of dogs he is harnessed alongside is even deadlier. Set in the 1890s Klondike gold rush, it tells how Buck, a huge wolfhound, is stolen from his pampered Californian home and becomes a sled dog in the arctic wastes of the Yukon. Listen to William Roberts’s majestic reading and you will understand why. This was the story first published in 1903 that made the struggling writer Jack London famous. Any parent or librarian looking for something short and exciting for a child, young adult or family listening can’t go wrong with Roberts’s performance and Call of the Wild, a guaranteed hit! This listener found this to be one of the best recordings I’ve listened to in a long time I had to be careful while driving and listening because I got caught up in being in one of my favorite places and living the life of a dog. The longer he lives in Alaska, the more in tune with the ancestral ways of his dog ancestors Buck becomes, dreaming of old half clad masters and ‘shades of all manner of dogs, half-wolves and wild wolves’ until he is drawn deep into the wilderness. There is a string of tales from his ‘taming’ to the ways of sled pulling, to the inept trio who are doomed, dog fighting, survival, and finally to meeting John Thornton and their mutual love and understanding for one another. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd is stolen and moves from his happy life as ‘king’ of the Santa Clara ranch where he lives a life of adventure, peril, though also often cruelty, to Alaska. When gold is found in the Klondike, there is a great need for sled dogs. His robust voice, his ability to keep listeners glued, and the fond care with which he reads is spellbinding. And TV, film and stage actor William Roberts’s reading is perfect. Jack London’s deceptively simple direct way of writing combined with one of best dog stories ever, is why this book is such an enduring classic. While Roberts doesn’t use great character range, he lets London’s writing – especially the passages about the mysterious, enchanting call of the wild – ring with its startling beauty. He sounds like a grizzled man who would never display overt emotion but who, nonetheless, can tell a captivating yarn. Roberts has a voice that could have belonged to one of this era’s gold panners. From the peril Buck the sled dog faces in the Arctic to the suffering he endures under brutal masters, listening to his adventure is no tame experience. In the great tradition of classic animal stories, Jack London’s Call of the Wild, read by William Roberts, is a wrenching story. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary housecat named Rusty… who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.Titles by Jack London Titles by Jack London The Call of the Wild (abridged) The Call of the Wild (unabridged) Classic American Short Stories (unabridged) The Sea-Wolf (abridged) White Fang (abridged) Reviews
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