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The Call of the Wild
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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wante…
Details
- AuthorJack London
- SourceProject Gutenberg #215
- Length32,067 words · 2h 08m of reading
- Chapters7
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-12
Contents
7 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Chapter I. Into the Primitive
- 02Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
- 03Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
- 04Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
- 05Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
- 06Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
- 07Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call
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