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在美国南加州一个温暖的山谷里,巴克过着安逸舒适的生活。他是米勒法官家的宠物狗,常和孩子们一同散步,在水中嬉戏。冬天的时候,他就坐在主人的炉火边取暖。
突然有一天,巴克被人拐卖到北方寒冷的阿拉斯加,被迫成了一只拉雪橇的狗。在残酷而真实的生活中,巴克不断挣扎求生,面对欺负他的霸凌狗、面对坏脾气的新主人、面对强大的狼群,面对死亡的考验……巴克身上原始的野性逐渐苏醒,勇气和力量随之复苏。
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Chapter 1 Into the Primitive
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 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 creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground. On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a score of them at least, who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysabel looking out of the windows at them and protected by a legion of housemaids armed with brooms and mops.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Into the Primitive
Chapter 2. The Law of Club and Fang
Chapter 3. The Dominant Primordial Beast
Chapter 4. Who Has Won to Mastership
Chapter 5. The Toil of Trace and Trail
Chapter 6. For the Love of a Man
Chapter 7. The Sounding of the Call
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◆我特别推崇他的《野性的呼唤》。写得很好,很壮烈阳刚的美,可望不可即。
——木心 中国当代作家
◆在他(杰克.伦敦)短暂而动荡的一生中,他写了大量的作品——他设定自己每天写1000个单词,而且基本上做到了。
——乔治.奥威尔 美国作家
◆没有一个作家比杰克.伦敦更能作为时代的明确而出色的发言人,因为他打破了冻结美国文学的坚冰,使文学与生活产生有意义的联系。
——菲利普.方纳 美国文学评论家
◆杰克.伦敦一直是我喜欢的作家……他基本是位优秀的故事家,同时又有某些部分出人意料地忽然冒出来,是位可以在各种意义上从各种方向趣味盎然解读的、不可思议的作家。
——村上春树 日本作家