The Call of the Wild (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack London
- First Published: 1903
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1897
- Setting: Alaska
- Principal Characters: Buck, Spitz, John Thornton
- 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
The Story:
Buck was the undisputed leader of all the dogs on Judge Miller’s estate in California. A crossbreed of St. Bernard and Scottish shepherd, he had inherited the size of the first and the intelligence of the latter. Buck could not know that the lust for gold had hit the human beings of the country and that dogs of his breed were much in demand as sled dogs in the frozen North. Consequently, he was not suspicious when one of the workmen on the estate took him for a walk one night. The man took Buck to the railroad station, where the dog heard the exchange of money....
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