White Fang: Original and Unabridged

by Jack London

Overview

White Fang by Jack London details the journey of a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.

Much of White Fang is written from the viewpoint of the main canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans. White Fang examines the violent world of wild animals and the equally violent world of humans. The book also explores complex themes including morality and redemption.

The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. London himself lived for most of a year in the Yukon collecting material for The Call of the Wild.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781499744514
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/24/2014
Series:	Translate House Classics
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.46(d)
Lexile:	970L (what's this?)

About the Author

John Griffith"Jack"London(January 12, 1876 - November 22, 1916)was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.Some of his most famous works includeThe Call of the WildandWhite Fang, both set in theKlondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area inThe Sea Wolf.

London was a passionate advocate of unionization,socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as hisdystopian novelThe Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposéThe People of the Abyss, andThe War of the Classes.