The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs over his circumstances and becomes the leader of a wolf pack. The story records the ‘decivilisation’ of Buck as he answers 'the call of the wild', an inherent memory of primeval origins to which he instinctively responds. In contrast,White Fang relates the tale of a wolf born and bred in the wild which is civilised by the master he comes to trust and love.

THE CALL OF THE WILD

 Ⅰ Into the Primitive

 Ⅱ The Law of Club and Fang

 Ⅲ The Dominant Primordial Beast

 Ⅳ Who Has Won to Mastership

 Ⅴ The Toil of Trace and Trail

 Ⅵ For the Love of a Man

 Ⅶ The Sounding of the Call

WHITE FANG

PART Ⅰ

 Ⅰ The Trailofthe Meat

 Ⅱ The She-wolf

 Ⅲ The Hunger-cry

PART Ⅱ

 Ⅰ The Battle of the Fangs

 Ⅱ The Lair

 Ⅲ The Grey Cub

 Ⅳ The Wall of the World

 Ⅴ The Law of Meat

PART Ⅲ

 Ⅰ The Makers of Fire

 Ⅱ The Bondage

 Ⅲ The Outcast

 Ⅳ The Trail of the Gods

 Ⅴ The Covenant

 Ⅵ The Famine

PART Ⅳ

 Ⅰ The Enemy of his Kind

 Ⅱ The Mad God

 Ⅲ The Reign of Hate

 Ⅳ The Clinging Death

 Ⅴ The Indomitable

 Ⅵ The Love-master

PART Ⅴ

 Ⅰ The Long Trail

 Ⅱ The Southland

 Ⅲ The God's Domain

 Ⅳ The Call of Kind

 Ⅴ The Sleeping Wolf

NOTES