The Call Of The Wild

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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 feral 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.

The Call of the Wild was enormously popular from the moment it was published. H. L. Menken wrote of London's story: Β«β€žNo other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild.β€œΒ» A reviewer for The New York Times wrote of it in 1903: Β«β€žIf nothing else makes Mr. London's book popular, it ought to be rendered so by the complete way in which it will satisfy the love of dog fights apparently inherent in every man.β€œΒ» The reviewer for The Atlantic Monthly wrote that it was a book: Β«β€žuntouched by bookishness…The making and the achievement of such a hero [Buck] constitute, not a pretty story at all, but a very powerful one.β€œΒ»

After the success of The Call of the Wild London wrote to Macmillan in 1904 proposing a second book (White Fang) in which he wanted to describe the opposite of Buck: a dog that transforms from wild to tame: ""I'm going to reverse the process…Instead of devolution of decivilization … I'm going to give the evolution, the civilization of a dog.

Famous works of the author Jack London: Β«β€žThe Cruise of the Dazzlerβ€œΒ», Β«β€žA Daughter of the Snowsβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Call of the Wildβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Kempton-Wace Lettersβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Sea-Wolfβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Gameβ€œΒ», Β«β€žWhite Fangβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Iron Heelβ€œΒ», Β«β€žMartin Edenβ€œΒ», Β«β€žBurning Daylightβ€œΒ», Β«β€žA Son of the Sunβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Abysmal Bruteβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Valley of the Moonβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Mutiny of the Elsinoreβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Star Roverβ€œΒ», Β«β€žThe Little Lady of the Big Houseβ€œΒ».

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whined placatingly, squirmed and wriggled

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He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

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He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect and, while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.

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