小說/散文

Call of the Wild, White Fang, & To Build a Fire
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
00609852
作者：
London, Jack
定價：
350
會員價：
$298
ISBN：
9780375752513
出版年份：
1998
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
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《野性的呼喚》
由作家傑克·倫敦於1903年發表的著名小說。故事敘述一隻名叫巴克的狗歷經磨難，最終回到自然的野生環境的故事。

《野性的呼喚》為一部動物冒險小說，是美國文學史上的經典作品，被譽為「世界上讀得最多的美國小說」。小說中體現的主題——推崇戰勝敵人後而存活所需的力量與勇氣，一直是傑克·倫敦創作的核心思想。小說不僅十分暢銷，也被多次改編成電影。

Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. White Fang (1906), which London conceived as a "complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild", is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization. Also included in this volume is "To Build a Fire", a marvelously desolate short story set in the Klondike, but containing all the elements of a classic Greek tragedy.

The Call of the Wild—Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time

To this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his symbolic autobiography. "No other popular writer of his time did any better writing than you will find in The Call of the Wild," said H. L. Mencken. "Here, indeed, are all the elements of sound fiction."
        White Fang (1906), which London conceived as a "complete antithesis and companion piece to The Call of the Wild," is the tale of an abused wolf-dog tamed by exposure to civilization. Also included in this volume is "To Build a Fire," a marvelously desolate short story set in the Klondike, but containing all the elements of a classic Greek tragedy.
        "The quintessential Jack London is in the on-rushing compulsive-ness of his northern stories," noted James Dickey. "Few men have more convincingly examined the connection between the creative powers of the individual writer and the unconscious drive to breed and to survive, found in the natural world. . . . London is in and committed to his creations to a degree very nearly unparalleled in the composition of fiction."
Jack London (1876-1916), by turns a renegade adventurer, 
a war correspondent, and an avowed socialist, first achieved fame with The Son of the Wolf (1900), a collection of short stories drawn from his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. "The greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived,  said Alfred Kazin.

延伸閱讀

Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories

書林書號：00204507

作者：London, Jack

ISBN：9780140186512

會員價：306

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