THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London

Buck is a big, healthy mixed-breed dog. He lives in the home of Senator Miller where  he has a comfortable life in sunny California. But then gold is discovered in 1897 in the Klondike region and large, strong dogs are in great demand to pull sleds, the only means of transport there. Someone kidnaps Buck and sells him and .....


Here is the audio material of the reading book:

The call of the Wild

Worksheets: Chapters 1- 9   19th May
                       Chapters  10-Epilogue  26th May


Test:     26th May



Worksheets to print

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jack London was born on January 12th, 1876 in San Francisco, California. His childhood of poverty, his experiences as a youth in varied laborious jobs and later at sea, as well as his participation in the Canadian Gold Rush, all found expression in his writing.

As a writer, London was both disciplined (he awoke early for a daily writing session) and prolific (he
produced over 50 volumes of stories, novels and political essays, many of them classics). London’s first collection of stories, The Son of the Wolf (1900), made him a best-selling author. He wrote two great animal novels: The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Among London’s better-known works are the novels The Sea Wolf (1904) and Martin Eden (1909).

Jack London was a colourful personality. In addition to his writing, he was a sailor, a horseman, a rancher,a farmer, a lecturer, an adventure-seeker and a dreamer. Full of vitality, passion and enthusiasm, he worked and lived intensively – but his life was short. London died in 1916.