American Literature Portfolio
stories; among them, The Call of the Wild, and White Fang. His best novel, The Sea-Wolf,
was based on his experiences at sea. His work embraced the concepts of unconfined
individualism and Darwinism in its exploration of the laws of nature. He retired to his ranch
near Sonoma, where he died at age 40 of various diseases and drug treatments.
Novels
· A Daughter of the Snows (1902)
· The Call of the Wild (1903)
· The Kempton-Wace Letters (1903)
· The Sea-Wolf (1904)
· The Game (1905)
· White Fang (1906)
Short story collections
· Son of the Wolf (1900)
· Children of the Frost (1902)
· Tales of the Fish Patrol (1906)
· South Sea Tales (1911)
Autobiographical memoirs
· The Road at Project Gutenberg (1907)
· John Barleycorn (etext) at Project Gutenberg (1913)
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald