The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London.
The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named
Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him
serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the
19th-century Klondike Gold Rushes in which sled dogs were bought at generous
prices.

Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is London's most-read book,
and it is generally considered his best, the masterpiece of his so-called "early
period". Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a
juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains
numerous scenes of cruelty and violence.

London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel
with many similar plot elements and themes as Call of the Wild, although
following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolf becomes civilized by a mining
expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.

- Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.