A Beautiful Novel <Tab/>"No literary historian but sooner or later must reckon with Jack London." Fred Lewis was exact in his The Development of the American Short Story in describing London's various works (Labor, 87). In Earle Labor's Jack London, he described Call of the Wild as an instant classic. The literary community shows enormous admiration towards London's ability to combine realism, romanticism, and symbolism all in one novel. Jack London's …showed first 75 words of 1309 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1309 total…the Wild. Ed. Andrew Sinclare. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin Books USA Inc., 1993. 41-140. McClintock, James I. White Logic: Jack London's short stories. WolfHouse books. (1975). Pp. 206. Rpt. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Paula Kepos. Vol. 15. Detroit: Gale, 1985. 260-262. Spinner, Jonathan H. "A Syllabus for the 20th Century: Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild.'" Jack London Newsletter. Vol. 7. No. 2, May - August, 1979. pp 73-78. Rpt. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Paula Kepos. Vol. 39. Detroit: Gale, 1991. 278-281.