The Call of the Wild (Magill Book Reviews)
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- Author: John Griffith Chaney
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Adventure Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Adventure
- Subjects: Values, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Dogs, Nature, Nineteenth century, Death or dying, Good and evil, Human behavior, Adventure, Ice, Alaska, Arctic, Wolves, Yukon, Gold mines or mining, Prospecting or prospectors, Wildlife, Snow
- Locales: Yukon Territory, Canada
This is a novel of “devolution” which traces the process of releasing Buck’s savage, atavistic nature beneath its civilized veneer. Through the brutality of various human masters and the cunning of the other dogs he meets, Buck learns not only to adapt and survive his ordeal but also to prevail over the hostile wilderness; by the novel’s end Buck is leading a pack of wolves in the Yukon. At only one point in the story does Buck experience gentle treatment and that is when he is nursed back to health by John Thornton, but when Thornton is killed by hostile Indians, Buck is...
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