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The Call of the Wild

By Jack London, Melvin Burgess (Contributor)

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| eBook | 9780141920535

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Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating and sleeping in the golden sunshine. But one day a treacherous act of betrayal leads to his kidnap, and he is forced into a life of toil and danger. Dragged away to be a sledge dog in the harsh and freezing cold Yukon, BContinue

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Mau said on Mar 31, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

Call of the Wild

In the last year or so whenever I'm in the mood for a bit lighter fare than the thick history tomes I usually read, I've been trying to catch up on some classics, "children's" classics, I never read (in 4th grade, I was reading "Gone with the Wind", and the "Poldark" series--not your usual "youth" r ... (continue)

In the last year or so whenever I'm in the mood for a bit lighter fare than the thick history tomes I usually read, I've been trying to catch up on some classics, "children's" classics, I never read (in 4th grade, I was reading "Gone with the Wind", and the "Poldark" series--not your usual "youth" reading). Finally, I picked up the one book that drove my uncle, as a boy growing up in southern Alabama, to abandon the Gulf Coast for Alaska.
Fully aware that many of these classics are being re-written to conform to PC'ness, I've found my local library to be a gold mine for unaltered versions. And London's "Call of the Wild" is a perfect example of a candidate for banning by our current Nanny Statists. It is brutal and bloody, and promotes "competitive behavior"--that which must be squashed in a world of "participation trophies".

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SWReader said on Jan 7, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback