The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 1903 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Modernist

Buck, a large dog living easily on a California estate, is stolen and sold north into the Klondike sled traces. Beatings, hunger and the other dogs teach him the law of club and fang, while something older begins to answer in him. Civilization shed layer by layer, told from inside the animal.

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