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| name = The Call of the Wild |
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| image = [[Image:TheCallOfTheWildBookCover.jpg|200px|''The Call of the Wild'' book cover]] |
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| subfamilia = [[Serrasalminae]] |
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| language = [[English language|English]] |
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| species = '''''P. nattereri''''' |
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| genre = [[Novel]] |
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| binomial = ''Pygocentrus nattereri'' |
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| publisher = [[Macmillan]] |
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| binomial_authority = [[Rudolf Kner|Kner]], [[1858]] |
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| release_date = [[1903]] |
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''Serrasalmus nattereri'' <small>(non [[Albert C. L. G. Günther|Günther]], [[1864]])</small><br> |
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| media_type = Print ([[Hardback]] & [[Paperback]]) |
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| pages = 202 pp |
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{{dablink|For other uses, see [[Call of the Wild (disambiguation)]]}} |
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'''''The Call of the Wild''''' is a [[novella]] by [[United States of America|American]] writer [[Jack London]]. The plot concerns a [[domestication|domesticated]] [[dog]] whose primordial instincts return as he works as a sled dog in the trecherous, frigid Yukon in the search of a yellow metal. |
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The '''Red bellied piranha''' (''Pygocentrus nattereri'') is a [[species]] of [[Piranha]]. The species lives in the [[Amazon River Basin]] in [[Brazil]], like most species of Piranha. |
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Published in 1903, ''The Call of the Wild'' is London's most read book and considered one of his best. Because the [[protagonist]] is a dog, it is often thought to be particularly suitable for children, but it is dark in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty and violence. |
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The hero, Buck, is a 4-year-old, 140 lb St. Bernard St. Bernard/Scotch Shepherd (i.e., Collie) mix who is abducted from a comfortable life as the pet of Judge Miller in Santa Clara Valley, located in Northern California, by a treacherous thief and sold to a trainer of sled dogs. In a series of episodes, Buck is forced to survive and adapt to brutal and cruel conditions, in Alaska and Yukon. He works pulling sleds with other dogs. He changes hands many times before he is eventually acquired by a kind and loving owner, John Thornton. When Thornton is killed by "Yeehat" Indians, Buck goes into a beastly rage and kills the Indians. Buck returns to the wild and becomes the alpha male of a wolf pack he met a few days after the death of Thornton. Images of death, cruelty, and [[Darwinism|Darwinian]] struggle abound. Of the new world Buck enters, London writes "The salient thing of this other world seemed fear." (Such dark [[Theme (literature)|themes]] are typical of Jack London's work, and he defended them in his essay "The Terrible and Tragic in Fiction.") |
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Piranha, despite their fearsome reputation, can be kept as aquarium fish. Though their diet in nature consists exclusively of live prey, they readily eat other food as well. The use of "[[feeder fish]]" is discouraged; the use of live prey is illegal in several countries {{Fact|date=February 2007}}, and there is a possibility of introducing diseases or parasites. |
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==Literary significance & criticism== |
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The University of Pennsylvania's Online Books Page [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/banned-books.html] states that "Jack London's writing was censored in several European dictatorships in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1929, Italy banned all cheap editions of his ''Call of the Wild'', and Yugoslavia banned all his works as being 'too radical.' Some of London's works were also burned by the Nazis." (These regimes may have been reacting to Jack London's reputation as an outspoken [[Socialist]] rather than to the content of the book, which, unlike some of his other novels, has no overt political message). |
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In 1960, critic [[Maxwell Geismar]] called ''The Call of the Wild'' "a beautiful prose poem." Editor [[Franklin Walker]] said that it "belongs on a shelf with ''[[Walden]]'' and ''[[Huckleberry Finn]]''". [[E. L. Doctorow]] called it "a mordant parable... his masterpiece." |
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*[http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=4501&genusname=Pygocentrus&speciesname=nattereri P. nattereri at FishBase] |
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*[http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/piranha.htm Red bellied piranha in the aquarium] |
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*[http://www.biocrawler.com/videos/displayimage.php?album=13&pos=1 Short film about the Red bellied piranha] |
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==Film, TV or theatrical adaptations== |
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Several films based on the novel, or at least using elements from it including its title, have been produced; the best-known of these, emphasizing human over canine characters, is the [[1935 in film|1935]] version starring [[Clark Gable]] and [[Loretta Young]]. (Young reputedly became pregnant with Gable's child during [[location shooting]] for this film.) |
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There was also a ''Call of the Wild'' television series broadcast in 2000. |
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==Japan== |
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''[[Yasei no Sakebi]] (アニメ野性のさけび)'', anime adaptation consisting of 22 episodes based on the novel. [http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1131] |
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[[fi:Punapiraija]] |
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There was also an anime movie, which was made in the 80's and was animated by [[Toei Animation|Toei]]. |
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==Footnotes == |
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{{note|yeehats}} The tribe was Jack London's fictional creation. "There was no tribe of American Indians named Yeehats. London's decision to employ a fictitious tribe is consistent with Northland traditions, however, for it was common to hear tales of barbarous people living in remote and unexplored regions of the territory." (Dyer, 1997) |
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The main character in the book was based on a St. Bernard / Collie sled dog which belonged to Marshall Bond and his brother Louis the sons of Judge Hiram Bond a mining investor, fruit packer and banker of Santa Clara, California. The Bonds were Jack London's landlords in Dawson during the Fall and Spring of 1897 - 1898 the main year of the Klondike Gold Rush. The London and Bond accounts record that the dog was used by Jack London to accomplish chores for the Bonds and other clients of London's. (Dyer, 1997) |
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==References== |
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*Dyer, Daniel, 1997: ''The Call of the Wild: Annotated and Illustrated,'' University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-2920-4, note on |
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{{wikisource|The Call of the Wild (London)}} |
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*[http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/CallOfTheWild/ Text of ''The Call of the Wild'' at Berkeley's Sunsite] |
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*{{gutenberg|no=215|name=The Call of the Wild}} |
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*[http://www.harrymaugans.com/2006/05/03/jack-london-white-fang-call-of-the-wild/ White Fang compared to The Call of the Wild] - Literary analysis |
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*[http://librivox.org/call-of-the-wild-by-jack-london/ Free audiobook] from [http://librivox.org LibriVox] |
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[[Category:1903 novels|Call of the Wild, The]] |
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[[Category:Modern Library 100 best novels|Call of the Wild, The]] |
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[[Category:Controversial Literature|Call of the Wild, The]] |
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[[it:Il richiamo della foresta]] |
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[[pl:Zew krwi]] |
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[[sk:Volanie divočiny]] |
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[[sv:Skriet från vildmarken]] |
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[[zh:野性的呼唤]] |
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The Red bellied piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri) is a species of Piranha. The species lives in the Amazon River Basin in Brazil, like most species of Piranha.
In the aquarium
Piranha, despite their fearsome reputation, can be kept as aquarium fish. Though their diet in nature consists exclusively of live prey, they readily eat other food as well. The use of "feeder fish" is discouraged; the use of live prey is illegal in several countries [citation needed], and there is a possibility of introducing diseases or parasites.
External links
- P. nattereri at FishBase
- Red bellied piranha in the aquarium
- Short film about the Red bellied piranha
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