杰克·伦敦《荒野的呼唤》.pdf

文档介绍：THE CALL OF THE
WILD
by Jack London
作者简介
伦敦杰克( ),
的笔名,小说家,生于美国加利福尼亚州旧金山。被父亲遗弃后,他
在公共图书馆自学,并考入加利福尼亚大学,但后来想发财而参加克
朗代克河的淘金热(年)。回来后靠写作为生,以多产闻名,其
中反响最大的作品为《荒野的呼唤》(
);还有严肃的政治小说《铁蹄》( )及
几部自传式小说,著名的是《约翰·巴雷康》(
)。
CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Into the Primitive......................................... ............................1
Chapter 2: The Law of Club and Fang ......................................................9
Chapter 3: The Dominant Primordial Beast ............................................16
Chapter 4: Who Has Won To Mastership ................................................27
Chapter 5: The Toil of Trace and Trail ....................................................34
Chapter 6: For the Love of a Man ............................................................45
Chapter 7: The Sounding of the Call .......................................................55
The Call of the Wild 1
CHAPTER 1
INTO THE PRIMITIVE
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 tidewater 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 be-
cause steamship and panies were booming the find, thou-
sands 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 graveled drive-
ways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the in-
terlacing bo