By Jack London
ISBN-10: 0806127570
ISBN-13: 9780806127576
ISBN-10: 0806171138
ISBN-13: 9780806171135
Bright, black-and-white illustrations supplement London's vintage event tale in regards to the dating among people and canines, concentrating on dollar, a puppy that turns into a sled puppy in the course of the Klondike gold rush and, later, the chief of a wolf pack.
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On 1 April, George Brett at Macmillan wrote with only "a few suggested alterations" and characterized the book as "pretty perfect as it is. . "15 For his short novel of approximately thirty-two thousand words London received no royalties whatsoever, only two fixed payments. On 3 March 1903, he accepted $750three cents per wordfrom the Saturday Evening Post, where a shortened Wild appeared in five weekly installments between 20 June and 18 July 1903. 16 London himself never expressed any regret for his decision to surrender all rights to his most popular work for $2,750.
The Call of the Wild has remained a classic for all these reasonsand for reasons it will take new generations of readers to imagine. " 1 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 and transportation companies 5 were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.
JACK LONDON, to Cloudesley Johns, 16 June 1900 Page ix CONTENTS List of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xxiii The Call of the Wild by Jack London I. Into the Primitive 3 II. The Law of Club and Fang 12 III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 20 IV. Who Has Won to Mastership 31 V. The Toil of Trace and Trail 38 VI. For the Love of a Man 50 VII. The Sounding of the Call 61 A Reader's Companion I. Into the Primitive 99 II. The Law of Club and Fang 127 III. The Dominant Primordial Beast 149 IV.
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