Yup. Never read this one in middle/high school. Le sigh.
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Beginning a swing in a new direction, with an obvious focus on these more natural, transcendental works, I'm turning back to the late 1800s for some more research, and I started with this famous little novella of ex-pirate (truth!) Jack London.
Anyway, this is a really blatant (I mean blatant—London's got some beautiful writing, but he is telling you everything. But I guess with a POV of a dog you would have to?) account of the primordial behaviors inherent within us. There's so much great writing that really reflects the severity of the wilderness, and London sets this up as sort of a wild vs. civilization effort, with the most civilized people falling to the wild due to their vanity and shallowness. I really recommend London to people. He's heavily influenced by Darwin, at least in this story, and it raises some really great discussion.
8/10
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