The call of the wild
| dc.contributor | Triggs, Jeffery North American Reading Project, Oxford University Press |
| dc.contributor.author | London, Jack, 1876-1916 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T10:31:08Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T10:31:08Z |
| dc.date.created | 1903 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993 |
| dc.identifier | ota:3043 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/3043 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/3043 |
| dc.description.abstract | Taken from the original type-setting tapes used by the Library of America: 1911-1918 First edition 1903 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.relation.replaces | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1818 |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | American fiction -- 20th century |
| dc.title | The call of the wild |
| dc.type | Text |
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| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 1128561 |
| files.count | 5 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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The Call of the Wild
by
Jack London
[Selections. 1982]. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1982
Into the Primitive
Old longings nomadic leap,
Chafing at custom's chain;
Again from its brumal sleep
Wakens the ferine strain.
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 wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.
Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller's place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caug . . .
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