THE YUKON "Gold Hunters of the North (1903)", "The Taste of the Meat (1911)", "In a Far Country (1899)", "To Build a Fire (1908)", "Like Argus of the Ancient Times (1917)", "The White Silence (1899)", "The Law of Life (1901)". ALASKA "Lost Face (1908)". THE CANADIAN BARRENS "Love of Life (1905)". CALIFORNIA "All Gold Canyon (1905)", "White and Yellow (1905)", "The Apostate (1906)", "Four Horses and a Sailor (1911)". UTAH "Mountain Meadows Massacre...

Includes the author's major novels and short stories as they appeared in their original form. Each work is preceded by a short introduction that fixes it biographically and chronologically.

In The Call of the Wild, a bold-spirited sheepdog is stolen from his comfortable home and thrust into the rugged, frozen terrain of the Alaskan Klondike. There he is made a sled dog and battles to become his team's leader amid the bitter cold and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. In White Fang, a lone wolf is captured in the frozen wilds of northwest Canada and made to serve human purposes. After enduring cruel abuse, he becomes a force of...

"The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog who, thrust into the brutal life af the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts as well as students and devotees of American literature will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience"--Cover p. [4].

Born in the wilds of the freezing cold Yukon, the wolf cub White Fang soon learns the harsh laws of nature, growing fiercer and more independent in his struggle to survive. Yet buried deep inside him are distant memories of affection and love. Can he learn to trust man again?

An abridged version of the tale of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.