The Greatest Gold Rush Tales. Джек Лондон

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      Jack London

      The Greatest Gold Rush Tales

      20+ Thrilling Adventures from Yukon: The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Burning Daylight and more

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-2111-0

      Table of Contents

       Novels

       The Call of the Wild

       White Fang

       Burning Daylight

       Short Stories Son of the Wolf

       The White Silence

       The Son of the Wolf

       The Men of Forty Mile

       In a Far Country

       To the Man on the Trail

       The Priestly Prerogative

       The Wisdom of the Trail

       The Wife of a King

       An Odyssey of the North

       The God of His Fathers & Other Stories

       The God of His Fathers

       The Great Interrogation

       Which Make Men Remember

       Siwash

       The Man with the Gash

       Jan, the Unrepentant

       Grit of Women

       Where the Trail Forks

       A Daughter of the Aurora

       At the Rainbow’s End

       The Scorn of Women

      Novels

       Table of Contents

      The Call of the Wild

       Table of Contents

       Chapter I. Into the Primitive

       Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang

       Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast

       Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership

       Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail

       Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man

       Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call

      Chapter I.

       Into the Primitive

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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. 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. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.

      Buck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Judge Miller’s place, it was called. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants’ cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.

      And over this great demesne Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. It was true, there were other dogs, There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count. They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange


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