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extension of London’s ongoing, evolving treatment of totemic kinship, may help give us a new perspective on a very familiar text. Perhaps we find The Call of the Wild so satisfying, so comforting, because anxieties about race and manhood seem to be completely absent in it—anxieties that London expressed more openly, albeit more uncertainly, throughout his early Klondike tales. Preparing the way for Buck, this Northland field of publication deserves our close and sustained revisiting: the region where Jack London first struck gold, first found himself as a man of letters.

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
    EDITIONS
    London, Jack. The Letters of Jack London. Edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
    â€”. The Complete Stories of Jack London. Edited by Earle Labor, Robert C. Leitz III, and I. Milo Shepard. 3 vols. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1993.
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    BOOKS
    Auerbach, Jonathan. Male Call: Becoming Jack London. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.
    Cassuto, Leonard, and Jeanne Campbell Reesman, eds. Rereading Jack London. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
    Foner, Philip S. Jack London, American Rebel: A Collection of His Social Writings Together with an Extensive Study of the Man and His Times. New York: Citadel, 1947.
    Hedrick, Joan D. Solitary Comrade: Jack London and His Work. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.
    Johnston, Carolyn. Jack London — An American Radical? West-port, Conn.: Greenwood, 1984.
    Kingman, Russ. A Pictorial Life of Jack London. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979.
    Labor, Earle, and Jeanne Campbell Reesman. Jack London. Rev. ed. New York: Twayne, 1994.
    London, Joan. Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939; reprint, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968.
    McClintock, James I. White Logic: Jack London’s Short Stories. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wolf House Books, 1975.
    Sinclair, Andrew. Jack: A Biography of Jack London. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
    Walker, Franklin. Jack London and the Klondike. San Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1966.
    Watson, Charles N., Jr. The Novels of Jack London: A Reappraisal. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

A NOTE ON THE TEXT
    This Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition of selected Northland stories is based on the first American book editions of Jack London’s short story collections. Although many of these stories were initially published in periodicals, London regularly used the opportunity of book publication to restore cuts and changes that had been made previously by magazine editors. With the exception of a few minor typographical errors, which have been silently corrected, the present edition preserves the spelling and punctuation (including open contractions) in the texts of the first editions. For a list of original dates and places of publication for these stories, see Appendix.

The White Silence
    â€œCarmen won’t last more than a couple of days.” Mason spat out a chunk of ice and surveyed the poor animal ruefully, then put her foot in his mouth and proceeded to bite out the ice which clustered cruelly between the toes.
    â€œI never saw a dog with a highfalutin’ name that ever was worth a rap,” he said, as he concluded his task and shoved her aside. “They just fade away and die under the responsibility. Did ye ever see one go wrong with a sensible name like Cassiar, Siwash, or Husky? No, sir! Take a look at Shookum here, he’s”—
    Snap! The lean brute flashed up, the white teeth just missing Mason’s throat.
    â€œYe will, will ye?” A shrewd clout behind the ear with the butt of the dogwhip stretched the animal in the snow, quivering softly, a yellow slaver dripping from its fangs.
    â€œAs I was saying, just look at Shookum, here—he’s got the spirit. Bet ye he eats Carmen before the week’s