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济南大学毕业论文 PAGE - PAGE 1 - An Ecocritical Interpretation of The Call of the Wild Introduction Jack London is one of the most important writers in America. He was born on January 12, 1876 in California. He had not become the highest-paid, most widely-read, and best-known writer in America until he was 37 years old. As a young man, London always looked forward to travel to the raw edges of the world, and many stories in his writing derive from his own experience. During those years, his family was very poor, and London had to leave school to make money. He worked hard in many different jobs, from a pirate in San Francisco Bay, to a tramp across America. Finally, tired of adventure and determined to improve himself, London returned to Oakland, and later, he graduated from high school in 1895. At that time, London even got permission to the University of California at Berkeley, but he did not stay long. As the Klondike Gold Rush in Canadas Yukon Territory had begun, London left his college to find gold in the snowy North in 1897. The experience in the Klondike served as an important turning point in Jack Londons career. Instead of being rich, London did gather sufficient material for a series of stories for his writing. He went back and began to write. During these years in the Klondike and the period of the Alaskan Gold Rush, Jack London finished his probably most significant body of work which set in the Far North. These short stories and novels first were published in magazines, and then collected and published in his first book, The Son of the Wolf (1900). This gave him a great encouragement to pursue his literary career. Londons best works also include The Call of the Wild (1903), The Seawolf (1904), White Fang (1906), The Iron Heel (1908), and Martin Eden (1909). His short stories are collected in such books as Children of the Frost (1902), When God Laughs (1911) and South Sea Tales (1911). His novel The Call of the Wild, an experimental novel, published in 190