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This particular short story is one that is not very well known by readers, even those who might be familiar with Dostoevsky, which is one of the reasons why we found it a great option for our next publication.

Something that you might not know about Jack London is that apart from being one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, he was also a photojournalist, socialist and more importantly a prolific photographer, capturing his surroundings on the various adventures and travels he embarked on throughout his life. There are roughly 12,000 photographs of his (archived in the Huntington Library in California) that bear witness to a particular proximity to the people and places that he encountered. When you look at some examples more closely, and specifically the photographs he took of people, you can tell that the camera angle is not positioned from above or far away (as an observer might look at the scene)....

The Call of the Wild doesn’t tell a pretty story, but a powerful one untouched by bookishness, and one that—immediately upon publication—secured London a place in the canon of American literature. 

We believe that great books deserve to be built to last, which is why top-quality materials are part and parcel of our press. When you purchase a Century Press edition, you're getting the honest hide of a real animal.

In The Sun Also Rises alcohol figures into nearly every scene, underscoring how deeply intertwined these spirits were with Hemingway's own life and by consequence those of his roman-à-clef personas.