The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at …
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The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primitive and wild in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild. London spent almost a year in the Yukon, and his observations form much of the material for the book. The story was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903 and was published later that year in book form. The book's great popularity and success made a reputation for London. As early as 1923, the story was adapted to film, and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations.
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- 21623
- BNF ID:
- 14420507m
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La llamada de la selva
90 pages
English language
Published March 17, 2016
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- 978-1-5335-0142-4Copied ISBN!
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- 30456664
The Call of the Wild, White Fang - And other stories
408 pages
English language
Published March 17, 1993 by Penguin Books.
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- 978-0-14-018651-2Copied ISBN!
The Call of the Wild and White Fang
English language
Published Dec. 1, 2003
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- 978-1-59308-002-0Copied ISBN!
L'appel de la foret
181 pages
French language
Published July 15, 2011 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-063979-3Copied ISBN!
L'appel de la forêt
191 pages
French language
Published Aug. 27, 2005 by Éditions Gallimard.
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- 978-2-07-051336-9Copied ISBN!
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THE CALL OF THE WILD [Unabridged MP3-CD] by Jack London, Read by Gene Engene
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