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The Call of the Wild: Popular Penguins Paperback – 28 June 2010

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Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, Buck must fight for his survival. Can he rise above his enemies and become the master of his realm once again?
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Jack London was born into poverty in San Francisco in 1876. Before his success as a novelist, London spent a lot of time avoiding a life as a manual worker and, in the process, experienced many things that became central to his plots. He ran away from home, bought a sailing boat and became an oyster pirate - a story recounted in John Barleycorn. His best-known novel, Call of the Wild, was drawn from his own experience of the Klondike Gold Rush, a time that would inspire many of London's short stories as well. London became addicted to writing after winning a short story competition in the San Francisco Morning Call in 1893. It earned London $25, the equivalent of a month's wages. Dozens of books followed - including John Barleycorn (1913), The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). He published an average of three or four books a year. He died in 1916.

Jack London (1876 - 1916), lived a life rather like one of his adventure stories. He was born John Chaney, the son of a travelling Irish-American fortune-teller and Flora Wellman, the outcast of a rich family. By the time Jack was a year old, Flora had married a grocer called John London and settled into a life of poverty in Pennsylvania. As Jack grew up he managed to escape from his grim surroundings into books borrowed from the local library - his reading was guided by the librarian.
At fifteen Jack left home and travelled around North America as a tramp - he was once sent to prison for thirty days on a charge of vagrancy. At nineteen he could drink and curse as well as any boatman in California! He never lost his love of reading and even returned to education and gained entry into the University of California. He soon moved on and in 1896 joined the gold rush to the Klondyke in north-west Canada. He returned without gold but with a story in his head that became a huge best-seller - The Call of the Wild - and by 1913 he was the highest -paid and most widely read writer in the world. He spent all his money on his friends, on drink and on building himself a castle-like house which was destroyed by fire before it was finished. Financial difficulties led to more pressure than he could cope with and in 1916, at the age of forty, Jack London committed suicide.
Titles such as The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf and White Fang continue to excite readers today.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Press; 1st edition (28 June 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 014119488X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0141194882
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.2 x 1.8 x 18 cm
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    John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

    Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

    London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.

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Ellie
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LynnS77
5.0 out of 5 stars The Call
Reviewed in the United States on 6 December 2023
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I read this book as a child when it was suggested to me by not only my family, but by my school. I’m not certain how old I was, but I’m certain that I wasn’t out of grade school. Of course, this was a different time when we found different priorities and I suppose my reading level was more important than my not finding the book I was reading to be full of sadness. Doesn’t most children love dogs and find animal abuse horrifying? I know that I certainly did, but once you start a book like this there’s no quitting it. So anyone who has not read this book and thinks it’s a good adventure book to give to a small child, I suggest you read it first. I was a tough kid, it was okay, just not what I expected as a child hoping for adventure.

It is a good book though, good enough for me to want to put it in my reviews and even skim it again. The story is set during the Klondike gold rush when a big and beautiful pet is stolen from a ranch in California to be used as a sled dog.

Buck’s life changes overnight from being pampered to being beaten by humans and bullied by other dogs. The temperature drops practically overnight, and Buck must learn to adapt to living in freezing conditions and snow with no shelter and very little food. He learns the pecking order fast, and learns that he doesn’t want to be submissive.

When they reach their destination the dogs are starved and further abused, but Buck is fortunate and is saved by a kind man that he forms a new bond with. That was one of my favorite parts of the book.

This is still a classic and good for young adults, but not for children imo.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Retorno à natureza primordial
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Jack London cria uma impressionante história sobre a vida literalmente selvagem de homens e cães no cenário inóspito do Alasca, nos tempos da corrida pelo ouro. Sendo um aventureiro, provavelmente muitas de suas experiências pessoais dão suporte à narrativa. Seu estilo, simples e direto, facilita a entrada do leitor nesta incrível aventura e o prende até o final do livro.
A história é contada pela perspectiva de um cão doméstico, Buck, acostumado a uma vida tranquila em um sítio na Califórnia, até ser sequestrado e levado às terras do Norte. Lá, ele se torna parte de uma matilha de cães puxadores de trenó. A duras penas, Buck vai percebendo a natureza boa ou má dos companheiros caninos, a lei do chicote e a crueldade dos homens, despidos de qualquer compaixão. No rigor do ambiente gelado o que resta a Buck é a luta corajosa por manter-se vivo. Assim, vai deixando aflorar seu instinto primitivo e primordial, anteriormente mascarado por um verniz de civilidade.
O livro também pode ser lido como uma metáfora. Quando submetida a condições extremas, a fina divisória entre a civilização e a barbárie é rompida. Mas Buck ainda guarda uma ética rudimentar. Ele nunca perde a dignidade. Sua violência é pela sobrevivência, não é gratuita. No meio da traição, esperteza, ciúme, raiva e inveja, ainda há espaço para a amizade, gratidão, lealdade e amor.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good quality
Reviewed in India on 16 March 2024
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The product was delivered very quickly and the quality of the book is good. Satisfied with the purchase 👍👍
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D. J. B. James
5.0 out of 5 stars Cracking tale superbly written. Jack London keeps the pace running on this epic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 March 2023
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A big, privileged southern dog gets his life inverted by his theft. Shifting from one vicious owner to the next, the big dog, Buck, has to use to wit, cunning and strength to remain alive in the frozen and brutal world of the Klondike Gold rush. At last he meets a good man, John Thonton, who saves his life and Buck doesn't forget it. Prospecting far into the rugged mountains of the interior, he accompanies his new master and two friends, before finally answering the voice he's heard all of his life. It's a wonderful story.
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selene
5.0 out of 5 stars storia di Buck
Reviewed in Italy on 20 October 2022
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Un bellissimo libro d'avventura che esprime tutto il talento dello scrittore statunitense e il suo amore per la natura, anche nei suoi aspetti più duri e selvaggi.
La storia del cane Buck inizia in California alla fine dell'Ottocento, figlio di un sanbernardo e di una femmina di pastore scozzese, vive nella villa del giudice Miller. Con l'inizio della "corsa dell'oro" nel Klondike, aumenta la richiesta di cani da slitta, unico mezzo possibile per percorrere quella freddissima parte settentrionale del continente americano e il povero Buck viene venduto dal losco giardiniere del suo padrone a un trafficante dai modi brutali... le dure condizioni dei cani da slitta sono descritte in modo molto realistico e commovente.
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