The Call of the Wild | Critical Overview
When The Call of the Wild was published in 1903, it was a resounding critical and popular success. Reviewers applauded this exciting adventure tale and viewed it as a welcome alternative to the popular fiction of the day. J. Stewart Doubleday, reviewing the novel in The Reader, praised London's "suggestion of the eternal principles that underlie [life]," admitting that "it is cruel reading—often relentless reading...But we forgive the writer at last because his is true! He is not sentimental, tricky; he is at harmony with himself and nature."
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