The call of the wild

by Jack London · language: en

Vocabulary level: Intermediate · Flesch–Kincaid grade 7 · 1,538 sentences

Vocabulary level is estimated from word frequency, not an official CEFR classification.

Subjects: Adventure stories · Animal welfare — Fiction · Dogs — Fiction · Feral dogs — Fiction

Words worth knowing: nugget · unending · limply · capsize · sweater · tireless · whittle · knotty

cover The Call of the Wild by Jack London Contents

“Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom’s chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.” Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.

Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.

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