Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title?offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of The Call of the Wild includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Dwight Swain.
Kidnapped form his safe California home. Thrown into a life-and-death struggle on the frozen Artic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half shepard, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the leash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. And the greatest lesson he learns from his last owner, John Thornton: the power of love and loyalty.
Yet always, even at the side of the human he loves, Buck feels the pull in his bones, an urge to answer his wolf ancestors as they howl to him.
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The Best Book Ever
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- 10/24/2006
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Call of the Wild, a story of strength, courage, and survival. Buck, the main character of the book, started out as a nice and pampered dog loved by almost everyone in his town. But that soon changed when people discovered a small, shiny speck that set everyone going to the Yukon Territory, gold. Everyone wanted strong dogs that could haul all the equipment needed to survive the rigid climates of Alaska. Unfortunately, Buck was the kind of dog the miners were looking for. He was immediately captured and sold to go to Alaska which started his transformation. While he was in Alaska he faced many hardships, which I thought were very sad and somewhat gruelsome, but he went on withstanding the pain and suffering he faced during the journey. His characteristics and personality almost made me think that he was an actual person instead of a fictional dog. With the hard and dangerous life he had in the undesirable condition, he eventually turned from a dog that had a relaxed life to a wolf-like creature struggling to survive in the harsh conditions. He had many confrontations with men and other dogs which many were very sad and painful for Buck. But there was still hope for Buck because he now had the wild side of him to sort of comfort him. That hope enlarged even more when he met John Thorton. The moment Buck met Thorton, it was a bond that was to last until time has come to end it. At first Buck and Thorton were inseparable with Buck following Thorton around everywhere he went. But later, his wild counterparts began to grow larger than the bond with Thorton and started to go out into the wilderness separating from Thorton. Out in the wilderness, Buck soon befriended his first wild friend, which made him fit even more into the wild. When Buck and Thorton's ties were finally broken after a very sad and heartbreaking tragedy, Buck knew exactly where to go, to the call of the wild. With Jack London's talented writing, this masterpiece of classic literature gives a different style of writing that I think is unique from all the rest. It is a great novel to read and I think anyone would enjoy it, especially people who likes adventure and dogs.
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