Call of the Wild (novel)

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The Call of the Wild , first edition 1903

Call of the Wild (Original title: The Call of the Wild ) is a novel by Jack London . In the work, the author describes - from the perspective of a dog - the hard life at the time of the Klondike gold rush at the end of the 19th century in Alaska .

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At the end of the 19th century the dog Buck lived in the Santa Clara Valley south of San Francisco . One day he is kidnapped by his owner's gardener due to gambling debt and taken to the Klondike region of Alaska as a sled dog . In the course of the story, the "call of the wild" reaches him more and more. After many adventures with constantly changing sleigh drivers, Buck is rescued by John Thornton. The two become an inseparable couple. After the death of its last master, the dog, which is now without ties to humans, finally follows this call and joins a wolf pack.

The book found its sequels in Jerry the Islander and in Michael, Jerry's brother .

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The book was published in 1903. There are countless editions, with and without illustrations, as the book is now free of copyright. In Germany, on the recommendation of Hermann Löns , the work was published in a translation by Löns' wife, Lisa Hausmann, in 1903 by the Sponholtz publishing house in Hameln. The trilogy was published again in Germany in 1977 and 1985 in a volume by Universitas Verlag .

In 2013 dtv published a new, according to the publisher, the first complete translation of Lutz-W's novel. Wolff with an afterword and notes.

Film adaptations

literature

  • Raymond Benoit: Jack London's 'The Call of the Wild.' . American Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2, 1968, pp. 246-248. ( JSTOR )
  • Richard Fusco: On Primitivism in 'The Call of the Wild.' American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, Vol. 20, No. 1, 1987, pp. 76-80 ( JSTOR )
  • Daniel Dyer: Jack London's The Call of the Wild for Teachers . University of Oklahoma Press, 1997, ISBN 9780806129334

Web links

Commons : The Call of the Wild  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The Call of the Wild (London)  - Sources and full texts (English)

Individual evidence

  1. Eckhard Fuhr: Return of the wolves - How a homecomer changes our life , Goldmann-Verlag, Munich 2014, p. 166.