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The Call of the Wild

Jack London

Start date: August 15, 2016

Finish date: September 14, 2016

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Jul 29, 2011 Yair Ben-Zvi rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Sort of the halfway meeting between Melville and Hemingway, at least in this work, London presents a quick but in depth story. The saga of Buck from pampered Southland dog to hardened animal, independent and eventually even one with the nature that he grapples with throughout the whole novel. Though never a true fight, the giving into the primal drive is made satisfying in London's words as the past and the future lose each other in the melting down of learned behavior and reforging of instinct. ...more

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May 15, 2015 Ted rated it liked it

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Like White Fang, there is much allegorical material here. However, I was not moved in the same fashion as I was White Fang. Based on other's reviews I may be a minority.

This book spoke about one's authentic self. To find one's purpose in life. Unfortunately, as is usually the case, to do that oftentimes requires an individual to leave behind everything and start anew. Start with nothing and in the most dire of circumstances is the great refinery of being.

History is replete with stories of indiv ...more

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