The Call of the Wild

Jack London (1876-1916)

Jack London's 1903 Klondike classic — the book that made him famous and the most-read American novel of its decade. Buck, a big stolen house dog, is shipped north to the gold rush and learns the law of club and fang: the sled dog world is primitive, brutal and honest. Step by step his domestication is stripped away, until he answers the call that has been growing in him all along. Fierce, economical and beautiful, it is the great American wilderness story.

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