The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (Signet Classics)

I have read this story as a child, and have now re-read it after I visited Alaska and saw musher dogs and trails on which people who looked for gold traveled. The story is just superb, and it is so deep at many levels that it is almost scary. Highly recommended!

I had never read this book and now, with the movie coming out, I thought it was time.Beautifully written. As a man who feels some longing for wild, this book spoke to me. I very much enjoyed it and will require, as much as I can, that my kids read it as well

We home school ,so this book was for English literature. It is a classic that we like. Since we home school this book was modaerate.

The book came quickly and it has fairly decent sized letters. Great conditions and a paperback. Good for students who have to read this in high school. Also, it came within 48 hours of ordering it which was great.

This book was purchased to entice a 40-something adult male literacy student to engage in reading by introducing a classic of courage and survival. Without stating it as such, this volunteer tutor hoped the man would see in this book aspects of his own journey of trial and triumph. Yes, I bought it as a teaching tool but was pleased as a devotee of good writing to re-visit this gem from my own high school years. Some consider this to be a "boy" book, but I think it is more widely the story of fate, of rising to life challenges that can never be predicted, and of redemption.

This is a marvelous opportunity for a city raised person to experience the call of nature in its most primitive form

Wonder story for all ages.I haven't seen the movie, but I have always liked the books better!

I've always loved this story "Call of the Wild".I read this in grade school, but it's stayed with me.I've never read the other stories.

missing some good stories by jack London but thats what you get for a mass market paperback and for the price, still worth it

Would recommend this short story to anyone. Vivid Storytelling. It's a classic book and a steal at 99p. Buck is a great character.

The Call of the Wild by Jack London is like one of those Boys’ Own adventure type books. Rugged and manly. It’s as fast-paced and action-packed as a downhill dog-sled race. The deeper chasm that’s runs beneath the snow is that animal and human must adapt in order to survive in severe and harsh environments. Live by your wits or die by your stupidity. Humans can be callous and cruel, and dogs can be loyal and loving. But both must mutually respect each other or plunge and perish beneath thin ice. The story is mainly set in the Yukon and Alaska gold rush days of the 1890s. There are lots of shiny nuggets to be found in this great book in which, e.g., you get to learn about yourself, man’s inhumanity to man and beast, how dogs think and behave, and, of course, the wild. Brilliant!

As expected

This elemental story imagines a dog plucked from an indolent early life as a household pet, to become part of a sledge team working in the harsh world of the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush. Struggling to survive, the former domesticated animal begins to regress through past generations to its wolf forebears. The story itself makes a similar journey back into the history, taking the form of the archetypal myth of the hero, where a youngster leaves the comfort of home and heads into the unknown. Writers such as Christopher Vogler suggest that such a story evolved back in the early history of humanity, as a teaching tool to prepare the young to go out beyond the tribe's home territory into a hostile world. In both subject and form, The Call of the Wild reaches back to the time when dog and man first came together, when they were rather similar, hairy creatures struggling for survival. This makes sense of the humanisation of the dog, even though its animal character is closely observed.I found The Call of the Wild immensely powerful and involving. By the end of it I actually felt bloodied and battered, as though I'd come through a formative experience. The Call of the Wild deserves its status as one of the best novels ever written.