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The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 1903 · 31,756 words
1:19:37
at 440 wpm · the whole book
The audiobook runs about three and a half hours.

Buck rules Judge Miller's place in the Santa Clara Valley, a hundred and forty pounds of him, out hunting with the Judge's boys, until a gardener's helper steals him and sells him north into the Klondike rush of 1897. A man in a red sweater teaches him the club; the traces teach him the rest. He fights Spitz, the lead dog, for the front of the harness, and watches a dying dog bite through another's traces rather than be cut out of the work. Then John Thornton takes him on, and the last third turns into a love story between a man and a dog. Thirty-one thousand words, and much more brutal than its usual shelving with children's books suggests.

7 chapters · begin at the beginning
IInto the Primitive9:23begin ▸
·IIThe Law of Club and Fang8:17sealed
·IIIThe Dominant Primordial Beast12:54sealed
·IVWho Has Won to Mastership8:05sealed
·VThe Toil of Trace and Trail13:34sealed
·VIFor the Love of a Man11:59sealed
·VIIThe Sounding of the Call15:25sealed

How long does it take to read The Call of the Wild?

The Call of the Wild is 31,756 words. At an average adult reading pace of 300 words a minute that is about 1 hr 46 min, or roughly 1 hr 19 min if you read quickly and 2 hr 39 min at a more deliberate 200 words a minute.

That count is measured from the complete public-domain text rather than estimated from a page count, so you can compare all the books side by side.

Text: The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. · You read at the book's authored pace; nothing here is stored anywhere but this browser. · About Midsentence