Subject for March, 2020
The Forethought
Subject: The Souls of Black Folk
Herein lie buried many things which if read with patience may show the strange meaning of being black here at the dawning of the Twentieth Century. This meaning is not without i...
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Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call-2
Subject: The Call of the Wild
They saw him marching out of camp, but they did not see the instant and terrible transformation which took place as soon as he was within the secrecy of the forest. He no longer...
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Chapter VII. The Sounding of the Call-1
Subject: The Call of the Wild
When Buck earned sixteen hundred dollars in five minutes for John Thornton, he made it possible for his master to pay off certain debts and to journey with his partners into the...
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Chapter VI. For the Love of a Man
Subject: The Call of the Wild
When John Thornton froze his feet in the previous December his partners had made him comfortable and left him to get well, going on themselves up the river to get out a raft of ...
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Chapter V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
Subject: The Call of the Wild
Thirty days from the time it left Dawson, the Salt Water Mail, with Buck and his mates at the fore, arrived at Skaguay. They were in a wretched state, worn out and worn down. Bu...
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Chapter IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
Subject: The Call of the Wild
“Eh? Wot I say? I spik true w’en I say dat Buck two devils.” This was François’s speech next morning when he discovered Spitz missing and Buck covered with wounds. He drew him t...
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Chapter III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
Subject: The Call of the Wild
The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth. His newborn cunning gave him poise ...
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Chapter II. The Law of Club and Fang
Subject: The Call of the Wild
Buck’s first day on the Dyea beach was like a nightmare. Every hour was filled with shock and surprise. He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into...
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Chapter I. Into the Primitive
Subject: The Call of the Wild
“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 troub...
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NOTE TO CHAPTER XLI.
Subject: Ivanhoe
Note J.—Castle of Coningsburgh. When I last saw this interesting ruin of ancient days, one of the very few remaining examples of Saxon fortification, I was strongly impressed wi...
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