The Call of the Wild (Oxford ELT Bookworms: 1000 Headwords: Pre-Intermediate) - Softcover

London, Jack

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9780194229975: The Call of the Wild (Oxford ELT Bookworms: 1000 Headwords: Pre-Intermediate)

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ISBN 10: 0194229971 ISBN 13: 9780194229975

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2000

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When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

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Review:

"This is the best scholarly edition of The Call of the Wild currently available, with a superb, wide-ranging introduction by Nicholas Ruddick that is a model of judicious lucidity. The edition is also greatly enhanced by a series of fascinating primary documents situating the novella in an array of turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural contexts, including the Klondike gold rush, Darwin on dogs and men, theories of atavism and instinct, and controversies surrounding charges of plagiarism against Jack London. Highly recommended." - Jonathan Auerbach, University of Maryland

About the Author:

Jack London (1876-1916) was born into a poor family in San Francisco. During his short life he was many things - sailor, factory-worker, gold-miner in the Yukon, traveller, journalist and writer. Call of the Wild and White Fang (which is also about a dog) are his most famous books.

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