The Call of the Wild Tapa dura - 1999
de Jack London; Wendell Minor (Illustrator)
London's quintessential adventure story is back, paired with 14 majestic full-color paintings by a master illustrator. Full color.
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Jack London’s The Call of the Wild is an anthropomorphic canine’s unforgettable tale of survival. Set during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, the novel’s main character, Buck, a large and powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Shepherd, is stolen from his ranch home in Santa Clara Valley, California, and sold into service as a sled dog. At first, Buck experiences violence and struggles for survival, becoming progressively feral in the harsh environment. By the end, Buck relies on his instinct and learned experience to emerge as the proven leader of the pack.
In The Call of the Wild, author Jack London blends his experience as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness with his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, influenced by the work of Darwin and Nietzsche. Thus, although the novel is first and foremost a story about a dog, it displays a philosophical depth absent in most animal adventures.
In the summer of 1903, the story was first serialized in four installments in The Saturday Evening Post, which paid $750 for it. Soon after, London sold all rights to The Call of the Wild to Macmillan, which published the story in book format in August of that same year. As the first printing of 10,000 copies sold out immediately, it is safe to say the novel was enormously popular from the moment it was published. It has since secured its place in the canon of American literature. Today, The Call of the Wild is still one of the best-known stories written by an American author and has been published in almost 50 languages. The Call of the Wild is ranked 35th on The Guardian’s list of the 100 best novels and 88th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century.
Identificación de primeras ediciones
Macmillan first published The Call of the Wild in August 1903. Produced in a print run of 10,000 copies, first editions state "Set up electrotyped, and published July, 1903" on the copyright page and contain 10 tipped-in color plates by illustrators Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull as well as a color frontispiece by Charles Edward Hooper. The first printing of The Call of the Wild sold for $1.50. Nowadays, signed copies have sold for upwards of $20,000.
Detalles
- Título The Call of the Wild
- Autor Jack London; Wendell Minor (Illustrator)
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición Complete Numbers
- Páginas 128
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Atheneum Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Fecha de publicación 1999-10-01
- Letra grande Sí
- Ilustrado Sí
- ISBN 9780689818363 / 068981836X
- Peso 0.89 libras (0.40 kg)
- Dimensiones 10.06 x 6.12 x 0.69 pulgadas (25.55 x 15.54 x 1.75 cm)
- Época de 09 a 14 años
- Cursos 4 - 9
- Nivel de lectura 530
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Geographic Orientation: Alaska
- Library of Congress subjects Dogs, Adventure fiction
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 97045019
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Beyond the Cover Author Interv, 11/01/1999, Page 5
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2000, Page 82
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