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The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Category: Fiction
Part collie, part St. Bernard, Buck is a pampered pet until he's stolen and forced to serve as a sled dog. In the Yukon, Buck discovers the primal allure of life beyond civilization, where "man and the claims of man no longer bound him." Jack London's urgent and vivid style, intensified by his firsthand ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck mus ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
Complete and unabridged paperback edition.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 ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Category: Children's Classics
The plot concerns a previously domesticated dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events leads to his serving as a sled dog in the Yukon. Buck learns from his experiences and becomes a pack-dominating feral beast. He learns lessons and relies on resurgent behaviors inherite ...Show more
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
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.' The biting cold and the aching silence of the far North become an unforgettable backdrop for Jack London's vivid, rousing, superbly realistic wilderness adv ...Show more
The Call of the Wild / White Fang by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics
Jack London’s two most beloved tales of survival in Alaska were inspired by his experiences in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush. Both novels grippingly dramatize the harshness of the natural world and what lies beneath the thin veneer of human civilization. The canine hero of The Call of the Wil ...Show more
The Call of the Wild (Flame Tree Collectable Classics) by Jack London; Judith John (Contribution by)
Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics Ser.
- Deluxe foiled and embossed cover, with gilded edges.- Gift editions of much-loved classics.- Accessible and timeless unabridged text.- Features a glossary of Victorian and Literary terms. Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home libr ...Show more
The Call of the Wild (Green Puffin Classics) by Jack London
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Green Puffin Classics Ser.
A collection of 4 Puffin Classics, designed to raise awareness of world environmental issues.Life is good for house-dog Buck where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine of Santa Clara Valley. But when he is stolen and forced to work as a sledge dog in the harsh conditions of the ...Show more
The Call of the Wild (HB) by Jack London
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Award Essential Classics
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship a ...Show more
The Call of the Wild - Illustrated by Jack London; Philip Goodwin (Illustrator); Charles Bull (Illustrator)
Category: Classics
The Call of the Wild is a novella by American author Jack London published in 1903. The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in Ca ...Show more
The Call of the Wild - Puffin Classics by Jack London
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Puffin Classics Ser.
Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck mus ...Show more