The Call of the Wild (London)

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The Call of the Wild  (1903)  by Jack London

information about this edition.  related portals: Children's literature. sister projects: Wikipedia article. A novella by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a domesticated dog whose primordial instincts return as he works as a sled dog. (Index) Originally serialized in the Saturday Evening Post in 1903, and released in book form later that year, The Call of the Wild is Jack London's most widely read novel. The novel is largely told through the perspective of Buck, a St. Bernard-Scotch Collie, and takes place in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush at the turn of the 20th century.

“And beyond that fire … Buck could see many gleaming

coals, two by two, always two by two.”

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Illustrated by PHILIP R. GOODWIN and CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL THE CALL OF THE WILD By JACK LONDON New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON, MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd. 1903 All rights reserved Decorated by CHAS. EDW. HOOPER

Copyright, 1903, By JACK LONDON. Set up, electrotyped, and published July, 1903. Norwood Press J.S. Cushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

Chapter		Page
I.	Into the Primitive	13
II.	The Law of Club and Fang	41
III.	The Dominant Primordial Beast	65
IV.	Who has won to Mastership	101
V.	The Toil of Trace and Trail	121
VI.	For the Love of a Man	159
VII.	The Sounding of the Call	191