书名：The Call of the Wild and White Fang 野性的呼唤与白牙
难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数640L
作者：Jack London 杰克·伦敦
出版社名称：Bantam Classics
出版时间：1991
语种：英文
ISBN：9780553212334
商品尺寸：10.7 x 1.8 x 17.5 cm
包装：简装
页数：320

The Call of the Wild and White Fang《野性的呼唤与白牙》收录了Jack London（杰克•伦敦）的两部经典自然主义小说，是他为数不多的几部描写动物和野性的小说，被誉为动物小说的经典之作和开山之作。作品从自然的角度，展现人性的特点，发人深思，以为深远，值得一读。
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The Callofthe Wild is the story of Buck, a dog stolen from his home and thrust into the merciless life of the Arctic north to endure hardship, bitter cold, and the savage lawlessness of man and beast. White Fang is the adventure of an animal— part dog, part wolf — turned vicious by cruel abuse, then transformed by the patience and affection of one man.

Jack London’s superb ability as a storyteller and his uncanny understanding of animal and human natures give these tales a striking vitality and power, and have earned him a reputation as a distinguished American writer. 

The Callofthe Wild《野性的呼唤》主要讲述了一条家狗变成一只野狼的故事：养尊处优的驯养犬巴克，在被拐卖到严酷的北方之后，在极其恶劣的现实环境中，它显示出了强烈的生存欲望，成为适应荒野生存规律的雪橇狗。
White Fang《白牙》的主人公是一只有四分之一狗的血统的小狼白牙。白牙在幼年时跟随母亲返回印第安人的村落，虽然摆脱了弱肉强食的荒野世界，却不得不面对狗类相残的严酷竞争和人类的粗野对待。遇到第二个主人后，白牙被训练成了一只多疑、残忍的战狼，对一切都充满仇恨，直到第三位主人解救了它。新主人以浓浓的爱和信任唤起了白牙内心深处温柔忠诚的善良本质，使它获得了新生。这个故事记录了一只从荒野来到人类世界的狼探寻生存法则、追求幸福的漫漫历程，但在故事背后探讨的却是人性。

Two of Jack London’s best-loved masterpieces, in their entirety.Call of the Wild tells a compelling tale of adventure during the Yukon Gold Rush, and fully captures the unquenchable spirit of Buck, a kidnapped dog trying to survive in the harshest of environments. Also set in Alaska, the powerful White Fang follows the often savage life of the magnificent title character, a mix of wolf and dog.

杰克·伦敦（1876~1916），美国有名的现实主义作家，20世纪初极具影响的小说家之一。其作品在全世界都广为流传，大都带有浓厚的社会主义和个人主义色彩。他一生著述颇丰，16年中留下了19部长篇小说、150多篇短篇小说以及大量文学报告集，还写了3个剧本以及相当多的随笔和论文。其中闻名的有《野性的呼唤》《白牙》《热爱生命》《海狼》《马丁·伊登》等。美国传记小说家欧文·斯通在他的《马背上的水手》里称他是美国无产阶级文学之父。

Jack London (1876–1916) was born John Chaney in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1896 he was caught up in the gold rush to the Klondike River in northwest Canada, which became the inspiration for The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). London is one of the most widely read writers in the world.

Old longings nomadic leap,
Chafing at custom’s chain;
Again from its brumal sleep
Wakens the ferine strain.

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 graveled 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 Miler’s boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.