The Call of the Wild
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3.7 • 107 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Apple Books Classics edition.
What would it be like to live by the rules of your true, wild nature? Follow the adventures of Buck, a giant St. Bernard mix who is stolen from a ranch in California and sold as a sled dog in the lawless, Gold Rush-era Klondike. As he encounters the violence of men and other animals, Buck quickly realizes he must ditch his manners and tap into his wild instincts if he wants to survive. Can Buck answer the call of the wild? With moments of heart-wrenching brutality, Jack London’s most famous novel has snared readers since 1903.
Customer Reviews
A read that overwhelms
I'm not the one good with words, but I'll try my best to put my feelings down in written form. This started as my reading material for my assignment, but before that I knew the book is one of the classics, so my expectations were high, as I have also read another book that explores similar premise ("White Fang" - which I love and adore). I was not let down. With English as my second language, the range of vocabulary and grammatical structures definitely overwhelmed me and gave me a hard time understanding complex sentences. But I fought my way through as the story got more exciting and more intense page after page. My imagination was helped soar high by the detailed, beautifully worded description of nature, emotions, and intensity. Sadness was looming about between lines, but was rarely dealt with head-on and life kept going in that stead. The story got hauntingly brutal sometimes and the author never failed to paint a realistic picture of it, so make no mistake, this is not a children book.
It has been long the last time I read a book cover to cover in one sitting, and I'd say it was a read to remember.
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