<p>Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title -- offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.</p><p>This edition of <i>The Call of the Wild</i> includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Dwight Swain.</p><p>Kidnapped form his safe California home. Thrown into a life-and-death struggle on the frozen Artic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half shepard, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the leash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. And the greatest lesson he learns from his last owner, John Thornton: the power of love and loyalty.</p><p>Yet always, even at the side of the human he loves, Buck feels the pull in his bones, an urge to answer his wolf ancestors as they howl to him.</p>
