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"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
Thursday 15 October 2020, by
Jack London’s masterpiece, The Call of the Wild was an instantaneous world-wide success the minute it was published in 1903, selling over a million copies in the first year and a phenomenal, unheard-of 6 million copies overall in just a few years, making him the best-known contemporary writer in the world at the time.
It has remained one of the most-read works of American literature ever since.