Chapter 1
"Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog..." — sets the ironic, almost biblical tone.
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From The Call of the Wild by London, Jack
The novel's famous opening establishes Buck's ignorance of the Klondike gold rush and foreshadows his abduction from the comfortable Santa Clara Valley.
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