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The Call of the Wild Penguin edition

Jack London
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literary fiction adventure fiction past tense third limited POV ~140 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

primal brutal melancholic

A dark literary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Plot-driven. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 85
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 90
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 95%
noneextreme
Sexual content 0%
noneexplicit
Humor 10%
seriouscomedic
Romance 0%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count34,877
Page count~140 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVthird limited

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