5. THE BOOK INDIRECTLY MADE JACK LONDON RICH.
The Call of the Wild made London’s name. Although it was a bestseller, he didn’t see any of the royalties—he’d taken an upfront flat fee of $2000 for the novel. But when he followed up with White Fang, it wasn’t long before he was the highest-paid author in the United States. He continued to churn out work, writing over 50 books before his untimely death at age 40. The Call of the Wild is still widely read today, and is considered to be one of the books that shaped America. (Credits: http://mentalfloss.com) 4. BUCK WAS BASED ON A DOG NAMED JACK. While in Alaska, London became friends with the brothers Marshall and Louis Whitford Bond. They owed a cabin near Dawson City and London was their tenant. Their dog, a St. Bernard-Collie mix also named Jack, must have made an impression on London. He later wrote Marshall Bond, "Yes, Buck was based on your dog at Dawson." (Credits: http://mentalfloss.com) 3. LONDON WAS AFFECTED BY THE ANIMAL CRUELTY IN THE KLONDIKE. London, a lifelong animal lover, was appalled by the cruelty he saw in Alaska. In one case, he wrote about “Dead Horse Trail,” a section of pass littered with the bodies of horses. “Men shot them, worked them to death, and when they were gone, went back to the beach and bought more,” London wrote. “Some did not bother to shoot them—stripping the saddles off and the shoes and leaving them where they fell. Their hearts turned to stone—those which did not break—and they became beasts, the men on Dead Horse Trail.” Though The Call of the Wild is about dogs, this same heartlessness is vividly depicted in the book. (Credits: http://mentalfloss.com) 2. HE WENT TO THE KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH TO ESCAPE POVERTY. By age 21, London had yet to publish and was running out of money, so he joined the thousands of people going to the Klondike Gold Rush. In 1897, he staked eight claims along the Stewart River but yielded little gold. He suffered through an Alaskan winter reading John Milton’s Paradise Lost and Darwin’s The Origin of Species—both influences on The Call of the Wild. Then, after almost a year of eating beans, bread, and bacon, he contracted scurvy and decided to return to California. He rafted 2000 miles down the Yukon River then hired himself on boats to get back to San Francisco. He was as penniless as the day he left, but he had a wealth of new material. (Credits: http://mentalfloss.com) 1. JACK LONDON WAS REJECTED 664 TIMES IN HIS FIRST FIVE YEARS AS A WRITER. As a young man in the slums of Oakland, London threw himself into writing. He later said, “On occasion I composed steadily, day after day, for fifteen hours a day. At times I forgot to eat, or refused to tear myself away from my passionate outpouring in order to eat.” At first, this deluge yielded nothing but rejection. London would impale every rejection slip on a spindle in his writing room and soon had a column of paper four feet high. In fact, he amassed 664 rejection letters in the first five years of writing. (Credits: http://mentalfloss.com) Did you like reading "The Call Of The Wild" ? Yes.Then most readers loved reading these 3 books on Amazon as well.
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