The Call of the Wild is a novel by American writer Jack London. The plot concerns a previously domesticated and even somewhat pampered dog named Buck, whose primordial instincts return after a series of events finds him serving as a sled dog in the treacherous, frigid Yukon during the days of the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rushes in which sled dogs were bought at generous prices.
Published in 1903, The Call of the Wild is London’s most-read book, and it is generally considered his best, the masterpiece of his so-called “early period”. Because the protagonist is a dog, it is sometimes classified as a juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence.
London followed the book in 1906 with White Fang, a companion novel with many similar plot elements and themes as Call of the Wild, although following a mirror image plot in which a wild wolfbecomes civilized by a mining expert from San Francisco named Weedon Scott.
This is an encore post of a presentation originally recorded in 2007
Chapter I: Into the Primitive
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The Law of Club and Fang
Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life is the ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again.
Buck understands that he has been taken from civilization into a wild, primitive place, and his first day in the North is extremely unpleasant.
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Buck stood and looked on, the successful champion, the dominant primordial beast who had made his kill and found it good.
Buck turns to his primitive instincts more and more as he struggles to survive in the wild North.
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The Toil of Trace and Trail
Thirty days later, the dogs and men arrive back at Skaguay, exhausted and worn down.
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The Sounding of the Call
Buck joins the wolf pack, and the Yeehats notice a difference in the local breed of timber wolves as years pass.
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