Amazon.com description: Product Description: This companion novel to Jack London’s best known work, “The Call of the Wild” was first serialized in “Outing “magazine in 1906. Upon its release it was an immediate success, especially among young readers. Rather than trying to humanize animals, as many other writers had done, London sought to “hammer into the average human understanding that these dog-heroes of mine were not directed by abstract reasoning, but by instinct, sensation, and emotion, and by simple reasoning.” London believed that that they “did not think these things”; they merely did them.