THE CALL OF THE WILD. (Pocket Books # 593 );
de London, Jack
- Usado
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- GOOD+
- Librería
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Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada
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Canada: Pocket Books Inc., 1949. Book. Illus. by Dom Lupo Painted Cover.. GOOD+. Soft cover. Second Edition By Publisher.. 102 pages. Complete & Unabridged; " Buck, part St. Bernard and part Scotch shepherd, is reared in luxury on a California estate, is stolen, beaten and shipped to the Klondike to become a sled dog, and (after the death of his master) heeds the call of the wild and abandons human civilization to lead a wolf pack. The novel is not so much the story of a dog that becomes a wolf as a myth about life and death and nature. Jack claimed later that he wrote it without any thought about its deeper significance as a human allegory. "I was unconscious of it at the time. I did not mean to do it.". ; >> Cover creaisng; bend to book;; store stamp to front end page. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Sinopsis
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.
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- Título
- THE CALL OF THE WILD. (Pocket Books # 593 );
- Autor
- London, Jack
- Ilustrador
- Dom Lupo Painted Cover.
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Estado del libro
- Usado - GOOD+
- Edición
- Second Edition By Publisher.
- Editorial
- Pocket Books Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- Canada
- Fecha de publicación
- 1949
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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