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The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

First published 1903

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Buck is stolen from a comfortable California estate and sold north as demand for sled dogs rises during the Klondike Gold Rush. In the Yukon he learns the violence of the club, the discipline of the trace and the harsh law governing dogs and men who travel through snow, hunger and exhaustion.

Successive owners expose Buck to competence, cruelty and reckless ambition before his bond with prospector John Thornton offers a different form of loyalty. The pull of the wilderness continues to strengthen, however, turning Buck's story into a reversal of domestication and a study of what civilisation conceals beneath comfort.

Historical Periods

Klondike Gold Rush1896–1899

Genres

Classical Literature Coming-of-Age Fiction Exploration & Survival Fiction Western & Frontier Fiction

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