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The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 1903
75%of this book is inside a 1600-word core English vocabulary
32,120words in the book
4,771different words
2,993beyond the core

Ranked #30 of 32 — easiest first.

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Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.

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