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The Call of the Wild

Jack London (1876–1916)

7 chapters and parts · about 3 hours to read

What the book is about

"The Call of the Wild" by Jack London is an adventure novel published in 1903. Buck, a powerful dog living comfortably in California, is stolen and sold into service as a sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush. Thrust into the brutal Yukon wilderness, he must fight to survive among other dogs and harsh masters. As Buck endures the unforgiving environment, he grows increasingly primitive, shedding his domesticated life and answering an ancient instinct that pulls him toward something wild and primal.

This summary comes from the Project Gutenberg catalogue, where it was written automatically.

  • Adventure stories
  • Animal welfare
  • Dogs
  • Feral dogs
  • Klondike River Valley (Yukon)

Chapters

  1. Chapter IInto the Primitiveabout 19 minutes
  2. Chapter IIThe Law of Club and Fangabout 17 minutes
  3. Chapter IIIThe Dominant Primordial Beastabout 26 minutes
  4. Chapter IVWho Has Won to Mastershipabout 16 minutes
  5. Chapter VThe Toil of Trace and Trailabout 27 minutes
  6. Chapter VIFor the Love of a Manabout 24 minutes
  7. Chapter VIIThe Sounding of the Callabout 31 minutes

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is in the public domain in the United States. Text from Project Gutenberg, eBook #215, with thanks. Sureno removed Project Gutenberg's header and licence and set the text in large print; this is not an official Project Gutenberg edition. Outside the United States, check your own country's copyright rules before copying it.

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