![]() ![]() When he is stolen by his master's gardener to settle some gambling debts, Buck passes through a sequence of owners representing the highs and lows of humanity. The reader discovers Buck, a domesticated prize dog, as the effete pet of a Californian judge. London's mythical creature became his answer to the complex challenges of modernity. ![]() He was inspired to embark on his dog story as a means to explore what he saw as the essence of human nature in response to a wave of calls to American youth urging a new start for the turn-of-the-century generation. ![]() A devotee of Kipling's Jungle Book, London found his literary voice writing about a dog that learns to live at the limit of civilisation. To George Orwell, he was "an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been". London is the archetype of the American writer as primeval hero, the forerunner of Hemingway, Dos Passos, Kerouac and possibly Hunter S Thompson. ![]()
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