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The Call of the Wild

by Jack London

7 chapters · 427 readings · about 23 hours of typing at a gentle pace, whenever you feel like it.

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"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.

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