White Fang (Illustrated)

by Jack London

Overview

White Fang is the story of a mostly-wolf pup born of a half-wolf, half-dog, in the midst of a famine. The wolf-pack is so starved that it attacks and kills one of two hunters and most of their dogs. After that, the wolf-pack breaks up in an attempt to increase their chances of survival.

White Fang's mother returns to her master, and we are treated to the action and adventures of White Fang as he becomes a full-grown wolf.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987017694
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/28/2016
Series:	Action Classics , #23
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

John Griffith "Jack" London (born John Griffith Chaney, January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

On July 12, 1897, London (age 21) and his sister's husband Captain Shepard sailed to join the Klondike Gold Rush. This was the setting for some of his first successful stories. London began his writing career just as new printing technologies enabled lower-cost production of magazines. This resulted in a boom in popular magazines aimed at a wide public and a strong market for short fiction. In 1900, he made $2,500 in writing, about $71,000 in today's currency. Among the works he sold to magazines was a short story known as either "Diable" (1902) or "Bâtard" (1904), in two editions of the same basic story; London received $141.25 for this story on May 27, 1902. In the text, a cruel French Canadian brutalizes his dog, and the dog retaliates and kills the man. London told some of his critics that man's actions are the main cause of the behavior of their animals, and he would show this in another story, The Call of the Wild. In early 1903, London sold The Call of the Wild to The Saturday Evening Post for $750, and the book rights to Macmillan for $2,000. Macmillan's promotional campaign propelled it to swift success.