What to read after The Call of The Wild by Jack London (Annotated)?

The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively feral in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild.

London spent almost a year in the Yukon, and his observations form much of the material for the book.

The story was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903 and was published later that year in book form. The book's great popularity and success made a reputation for London. As early as 1923, the story was adapted to film, and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations.

Here is the complete text of the novel with the followings annotations:

* Historical context:

The Call of the Wild took place during the Klondike gold rush during the 1890s. At this particular time, over 30,000 individuals visited the location around the junction of the Yukon and Klondike rivers in Yukon territory, just east of what is now Alaska.

*literary analysis:

London uses this incident to show the difference between the value of objects in society and the wilderness. In society, the purpose of material possessions is to show off an owner's wealth or status, which is frivolous.

* Quotes:

Jack London Quotes:

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

* Biographical Information:

Biographical Information:

Jack London is an American novelist, journalist and activist born John Griffith Chaney (January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916). He was a pioneer of American magazines and commercial fiction, and was among the first American writers to attain international.