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Il cane Buck, dal portamento fiero e dall'aspetto di un lupo, vive nella fattoria del giudice Miller, nella soleggiata Santa Clara Valley. Un bel giorno viene strappato alla sua vita tranquilla e venduto a un losco trafficante, che lo trasporta brutalmente nel Klondike, per metterlo a servizio dei cercatori d'oro come cane da slitta. Buck si trova ad affrontare lotte e fatiche per sopravvivere, viene maltrattato e sfruttato e impara a difendersi dagli altri cani, riscoprendo così il suo istinto selvaggio e il suo profondo legame con la natura. Finché un giorno, grazie all'affetto del cercatore d'oro John Thornton, ritrova nuovamente la fiducia nell'uomo. Il richiamo della libertà, però, è sempre più forte dentro di lui. Età di lettura: da 10 anni.
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- Pagine: 124
- Data di uscita: 04-04-2019
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I guess it's important to remember that this isn't just a socialist fable: it's also a book about a dog. That's certainly all I thought, when I was ten and I read and re-read this for the first several times. I just really liked dogs, and we couldn't have one, so I read a lot of books about them. He Leggi tutto
Men are so cruel. The way they break animals is deplorable; they use them, exploit them and abuse them all in the name of sport, entertainment and human convenience. Men are cruel. They try to conquer rather than living in a world of mutual respect; it’s man who has lost his nature, and he imposes s Leggi tutto
i am a dog obsessive. i'm nuts. dogs are my moby dick. they're my opera-house in the jungle. if i had a genie in a bottle, i'd wish away all human life (including my own) so dogs could take over the world. wait. that'd be wish number two. number one would be that i had an olympic sized swimming pool Leggi tutto
I remembered discovering either Call of the Wild or Whitefang when I was a boy and really liking it, so on finding this on our shelves I read it to Celyn (12 but too disabled to read). I found myself translating on the hoof as the book was written in 1903 and much of the language is quite Dickensian. Leggi tutto
I defy anyone - man, woman or child - not to like The Call of the Wild . It's the most exciting adventure, the most moving love story, the deepest meditation on a creature and its place in nature. If you aren't cheering for Buck the dog by the end of this you're either hard-hearted or a cat-lover.
Fascinating, but also far too brutal for my tender little brain.
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