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| Original Title: | The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories |
| ISBN: | 0192835149 (ISBN13: 9780192835147) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Buck, Spitz, John Thornton, White Fang, Bâtard |
| Setting: | Alaska(United States) |
Jack London
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 3.99 | 19561 Users | 265 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Jack London |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | August 20th 1998 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1906) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Adventure |
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When reading Jack London's work, I reach a cathartic experience that is usually only achievable by a powerful film (Schindler's List, Gladiator, Munich). However, Jack London is able to achieve that (at least for me) without the emotional orchestral soundtrack, or the film techniques used in modern cinema today. He is able to have me pause and contemplate the way I have lived my life and how I will continue. His sentences take me to a place where there is no iphone, ipads, ipods, no "generation me." It brings my focus back to the human emotion, the human experiences. Slowly but surely, the world of Fahrenheit 451 will soon be our world, and before long, we will be living in the world of 1984. Call of The Wild and White Fang helps me not to be apart of that.Rating Out Of Books The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
Ratings: 3.99 From 19561 Users | 265 ReviewsCriticism Out Of Books The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
This man was undoubtedly a good writer, his concise, tight occasionally prosaic phrasing works well, reminding me a little, and only a little, of William Goulding.Each books stands on it own merits; Call of the Wild4-Stars Excellent! Stars White Fang in a cameo role, some great descriptive prose which captures a sense of the Alaskan wilderness well as well as contextualising the brutality of man and beast.White Fang 2-Stars Call of the Wild in reverse; brutality of the wilderness, hate,savageryWhat a wonderful book. I haven't read this since I was in 7th grade and didn't finish it before my book report was due - my teacher caught on and really got after me for trying to turn in a book report on a book i didn't finish. I read this to my 8 year old and we both loved it. The story of Buck, a mild "southland" dog that is stolen and sold to work in the Yukon pulling dog sleds for gold seekers. He finds his wild roots and becomes one of the hardest working and most loved dogs of the north.
The above rating comes with a caveat. It applies to the story "The Call of the Wild," which is a bit ironic since as a child, I vastly preferred "White Fang" to "The Call of the Wild" and yet this time I found "White Fang" nearly unreadable as it just seemed to be so slow. "The Call of the Wild" really has no wasted space and is beautifully constructed. I started a few of the other very short stories in this volume by London, but had grown tired of the violence toward dogs and just give up. It
Enjoyed these stories much more than I thought I would. Really enjoyed both "The Call of the Wild" and "White Fang". The most obvious reason being that they were, despite everything else, riveting adventures set during the harsh/romantic Klondike Gold Rush. "White Fang" started off slower, and was more depressing, but also rewards the reader with the sweetest ending imaginable...it was good. Not sure if London's portrayal of dogs and their intelligence is in any way accurate but when London
As a study of a particular kind of early constructed masculinity via metaphor, this book is invaluable. I say book because Call and Fang form a sort of single narrative--the movement from civilization to "the wild" and the movement back (though not by the same dog). The last 10 pages of Call are genius that surpasses the rest of the book, and the first third of Fang is really quite good (the first two chapters alone would make a pretty incredible supernatural horror movie). I don't have to
The Call of the Wild by Jack LondonAnother version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at:- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...The Call of the Wild has been included on The Modern Library top of Best Books in the English language, available at:- http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/...I had qualms about it, when I first found it on this list of best novels, thinking that a book for children should not get so much attention.But it proved me wrong.It is a fabulous story,
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