About the Book
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SynopsisThe Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) by Jack London are companion novels that together explore the relationship between civilization and the wild. The Call of the Wild follows Buck, a domesticated dog thrust into the brutal Yukon wilderness during the Klondike Gold Rush, who gradually sheds his civilized nature and answers his primal instincts. White Fang reverses the journey, tracing a wild wolf-dog born in the Canadian wilderness who is slowly drawn into the human world and ultimately tamed by love and kindness. Together, the two novels form a thematic mirror, examining themes of survival, instinct, adaptation, and what it means to belong — whether to the wild or to civilization.
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Publication2004, CRW Publishing Ltd.