The Call of the Wild
Jack London · English · 4 chapters · 57 pages
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How it begins
“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.
Opening chapters only; the rest of the work is not included. Public-domain text from Project Gutenberg, ebook 215.
What it is about
Buck, a pampered Californian dog, is stolen and sold as a sled dog in the gold-rush Yukon. Short, physical sentences, plenty of action verbs and little dialogue: the most direct English in the collection.
Typing difficulty: Gentle. 4.3 letters per word on average · 20 words per sentence · 3% of words with ten letters or more
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