The Call of the Wild and White Fang

by Jack London, Jack Sullivan (Afterword)

Overview

THE CALL OF THE WILD delves into the mind, relationships and adventures of Buck, the dog, in the wilds of Alaska. In WHITE FANG, an orphaned half dog-half wolf struggles to survive in the Yukon wilderness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895772114
Publisher:	Reader's Digest Association, Incorporated, The
Publication date:	06/28/1985
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 1.50(h) x 9.50(d)

About the Author

Jack London (1876-1916) spent his youth on the waters of San Francisco Bay. In 1897, when gold was discovered in the Klondike, he obtained a grubstake and spent a freezing, fruitless winter in the Far North; by spring he was ready to return home to write. In 1900, his collection of short stories The Son of the Wolf was published. Two more volumes of Yukon short stories, a juvenile novel, and a Klondike novel followed in rapid succession. Then came his bestselling novel The Call of the Wild (1903) and the beginning of the years that were to bring him wealth and worldwide popularity. The eternal traveler, London served as a correspondent in Japan and Mexico and sailed his own ketch to the Solomon Islands before his death.
 
John Seelye is a leading American Studies scholar and Graduate Research Professor of American literature at the University of Florida at Gainesville. He is the author of a number of books, including The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Prophetic Waters: The River in Early American Life.
 
Michael Meyer, Ph.D., is professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Among his books, Several More Lives to Live: Thoreau’s Political Reputation in America was awarded the Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize by the American Studies Association. In addition to The Bedford Introduction to Literature, his edited volumes include Frederick Douglass: The Narrative and Selected Writings.

Table of Contents

CALL OF THE WILD. 1. Into the Primitive. 2. The Law of Club and Fang. 3. The Dominant Primordial Beast. 4. Who Has Won to Mastership. 5. The Toil of Trace and Trail. 6. For the Love of a Man. 7. The Sounding of the Call. WHITE FANG. Part 1: THE WILD. 1. The Trail of the Meat. 2. The She-Wolf. 3. The Hunger Cry. Part 2: BORN OF THE WILD. 1. The Battle of the Fangs. 2. The Lair. 3. The Grey Cub. 4. The Wall of the World. 5. The Law of Meat. Part 3: THE GODS OF THE WILD. 1. The Makers of Fire. 2. The Bondage. 3. The Outcast. 4. The Trail of the Gods. 5. The Covenant. 6. The Famine. Part 4: THE SUPERIOR GODS. 1. The Enemy of His Kind. 2. The Mad God. 3. The Reign of Hate. 4. The Clinging Death. 5. The Indomitable. 6. The Love-Master. Part 5: THE TAME. 1. The Long Trail. 2. The Southland. 3. The God's Domain. 4. The Call of Kind. 5. The Sleeping Wolf.

Editorial Reviews

 • "I can't celebrate the romantic ideas or the killing of savages in this book. But I can say I'm fascinated by it and that I find it worth going back to. It's a story which has gained its own life and will probably be with us for as long as we're reading books." —David Vann, Daily Telegraph

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