野性的呼唤(外国文学经典)(插图本)——以一只狗的经历表现文明世界的狗在主人的逼迫下回到野蛮，写的是狗，反映人的世界

    《野性的呼唤(插图本)》编辑推荐：满怀渴望与激情，在荒野中寻找生活的勇气，在冰雪中体味生命的智慧。《野性的呼唤》入选美国兰登书屋《现代丛书》美国文学鉴赏家推荐的“20世纪百部杰出英文小说”。
    《外国文学经典》系列汇集英文经典名著，版本精挑细选，装帧用心打造。作为*权威的英文原版图书，让广大英语及文学爱好者充分领略原汁原味的英语语言是该丛书经久不衰的魅力所在。

    《野性的呼唤(插图本)》讲述了一只名叫巴克的狗的故事。巴克经过文明的教化，一直生活在美国加州一个温暖的山谷里，后被卖到北部寒冷偏远、盛产黄金的阿拉斯加，成了一只拉雪橇的狗。它目睹了人与人、狗与狗、强者与弱者之间的冷酷无情和生死争斗，于是为了生存，它学会了只求活命、不顾道义的处世原则，变得凶悍、机智而狡诈。最后，在森林中狼群的呼唤下，巴克狼性复萌，逃入丛林，重归荒野。在小说中，作者将充满冒险和野性的淘金生活以及在这种特殊环境中“优胜劣汰、适者生存”的客观现实表现得淋漓尽致。

作者：（美国）杰克·伦敦（Jack London）
杰克·伦敦（Jack Lon）(1876-1916年)，美国20世纪著名的现实主义作家，是美国文学*重要的作家之一。出生于美国加利福尼亚旧金山的一个破产农民家庭。杰克·伦敦的作品笔力刚劲，语言质朴，情节富于戏剧性。他笔下那“严酷的事实”常常使读者受到强烈的心灵震撼。他的作品不仅在美国本土广为流传，而且受到世界各国人民的欢迎，是最受中国读者欢迎的外国作家之一。杰克·伦敦一生著述颇丰，其中最著名的有《马丁·伊登》、《野性的呼唤》、《雪虎》、《热爱生命》等。

Chapter I Into the Primitive
Chapter II The Law of Club and Fan8
Chapter III The Dominant Primordial Beast
Chapter IV Who Has Won to Mastership
Chapter V The Toil of Trace and Trail
Chapter VI For the Love of a Man
Chapter VII The Sounding of the Cell

His father, Elmo, a huge St Bernard, had been the Judge's inseparablecompanion, and Buck bid fair to follow in the way of his father. He wasnot so large, ——he weighed only one hundred and forty pounds, ——for hismother, Shep, had been a Scotch shepherd dog. Nevertheless, one hundredand forty pounds, to which was added the dignity that comes of good livingand universal respect, enabled him to carry himself in right royal fashion.During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a satedaristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, ascountry gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.But he had saved himself by not becoming a mere pampered house-dog.Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardenedhis muscles; and to him, as to the cold-tubbing races, the love of water hadbeen a tonic and a health preserver.
And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, whenthe Klondyke strike dragged men from all the world into the frozenNorth. But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know thatManuel, one of the gardener's helpers, was an undesirable acquaintance.Manuel had one besetting sin. He loved to play Chinese lottery. Also, inhis gambling, he had one besetting weakness faith in a system; and thismade his damnation certain. For to play a system requires money, whilethe wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife andnumerous progeny.