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White Fang Kindle Edition

by Jack London (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Considered both a companion and mirror to The Call of the Wild, this stirring adventure of friendship and survival reveals the conflicts between domesticity and instinct, as well as society and the natural world.

Wronged by human and beast alike, White Fang has endured through brazen ferocity. An enemy of his kind, he is sold to a dogfighter who pits him against other canines to the death—until a Yukon gold hunter comes to his rescue and provides an opportunity for a new life. As the wolf in White Fang sleeps, kindness and compassion allow him to understand what it means to be in the confidence of man.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08ML7D36C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Delhi Open Books; 1st edition (November 2, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 2, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1080 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 203 pages

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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.
Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike 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 in The Sea Wolf.
London was part of the radical literary group "The Crowd" in San Francisco and a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers. He wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics, such as his dystopian novel The Iron Heel, his non-fiction exposé The People of the Abyss, and The War of the Classes.
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Kenya Starflight

Thrilling companion read to "Call of the Wild"

Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2020

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Probably one of Jack London's most famous works, second only to "Call of the Wild," "White Fang" is, in many ways, both similar and opposite to "Call of the Wild." Both stories take place (mostly) in Canada's far north, and both show the capacity for both cruelty and kindness that exists in humankind. But while "Call of the Wild" is about a dog who is driven to embrace his inner wolf by the circumstances of its life, "White Fang" is instead about a wolf who finds his life shaped by the various men he encounters. And it's an often-brutal but thrilling and even beautiful story.

White Fang, the sole survivor of his litter and three-quarters wolf (his mother was half-wolf and half-dog), is accustomed to a life in the wild... so when he and his mother are captured by a Native American called Grey Beaver when he's still a pup, his first instinct is to flee. But he soon learns that trying to escape his new master means a beating, and so he reluctantly stays with Grey Beaver's camp. What follows is a brutal education in learning humanity's ways, trying to survive the bullying of the other dogs in the camp, and carving out his own lonely niche in the pack hierarchy. And as he grows up and his ownership changes hands, he learns that the only way to survive is to be as vicious and hard as the men who own him. But when a sympathetic dog musher buys him, can a kind heart and hands make up for years of cruel conditioning?

London's writing can come across as a bit stodgy and slow in comparison to modern-day writing, but I find that it can be both thrilling and thoughtful. He describes the Canadian wilderness with great care, showing both its beauty and its ferocity, and does the same with both the animals and the people who inhabit it. And he's quick to point out how such a wilderness can harden both men and animals to a terrible degree... but that a capacity for kindness still exists regardless.

The one thing that DOES make the writing a bit uncomfortable is some inherent racism (White Fang thinks of white men as being superior to Native Americans), but I take this more as a sign of the times in which the book was written than anything else. Also, if animal cruelty is a difficult subject for you, take care reading this book -- it doesn't shy away from the beatings, starvation, and other atrocities mankind can and does inflict on the animals it takes into its care. But it also shows how a kind and understanding soul can mend some of this damage, and go a great length towards making an animal's life better.

A great companion read to "Call of the Wild," "White Fang" can be a gut-wrenching read, especially if you're an animal lover and can't stand animal cruelty of any sort in a book. But it's an affecting book nonetheless, and shows just how much a harsh or a kind hand can shape any creature... even a human.

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M. Galindo

White Fang - What An Adventure

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2011

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Somehow, someway I managed to escape the mandatory reading of this book in school. And, for some reason, I've never seen any movie about it, either. I don't know how I would have felt about "White Fang" if I had read it when I was 12, but at 51 I was fully captivated!

White Fang is part dog, mostly wolf, born to the wild, but domesticated to man and not always treated well. The tale is told to his perspective, so dialog is sparse and the point of view is very interesting. How does a wolf/dog think? How does he perceive his world? Does he simply act on instinct, or can he reason to some degree? The credit to Jack London is that he doesn't really give White Fang supernatural powers, nor make him anything more than what he is: an animal who acts as such.

Yet, through all that White Fang experiences - the good, the bad, the horror - you do NOT want to give up on this guy! Some parts of this book were, and are, very difficult for an animal lover to read. I love animals, and have a special fondness for dogs, and there came a time when I doubted I was going to be able to finish this book. Yet, I am glad I perserved to the end and stayed true to White Fang and to the man who becomes the hero in the book, Weedon Scott.

Among the complaints of this book is that Jack London was too descriptive and wordy. To some that might be, but Mr. London knew how to set the scene and make it come alive. The reader is in the Yukon, in the woods with the indians, hidden in the lair with White Fang and his parents. One can easily visualize all of this in what really is a very short novel. Another complaint I've read is the language used. Mr. London wrote this book in 1906, and the vocabulary used is evidence of that. But the writing is simply beautiful, and some words, while a bit archaic, just add to overall mood of the book, in my opinion.

I thought this was a wonderful tale of a wolf's life, with all the happiness, trials, horrors, sadness, love, and redemption one could hope for. For me, White Fang was a character worth cheering for!

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Daniela Maria Monteiro Paschoal

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Reviewed in Brazil on June 20, 2023

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O livro está em perfeitas condições.
O produto estava muito bem embalado.

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Edoardo Albert

Jack London breaks the rules

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 4, 2024

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I first read White Fang as a reading obsessed child, probably when I was about ten. I remember I also read The Call of the Wild at about the same time. I remember I preferred White Fang to The Call of the Wild for two reasons: first, that it has a (relatively) happy ending and, second, because of the dog fight scene, when White Fang, who before had killed every dog put in his way, is defeated by the slow, plodding advance of a bulldog.

Rereading it many years later, if anything my enjoyment of the book increased. What a writer Jack London was. The prologue, of the two men at death’s edge trying to keep alive through the northern winter as they are pursued by a wolf pack, is as visceral a piece of writing as I’ve ever read. Then, as the focus switches to White Fang himself, Jack London proves that a great writer can break just about every writing rule out there.

One of the things they tell you when writing is show, don’t tell. If your hero is a crack shot, have him shoot the ace out of an ace of spades rather than just telling the reader he is a marksman. But in White Fang, Jack London does a lot – a lot! – of telling. He tells us White Fang’s inner life, his outer life, the life of the north, wild and human. He does this because he won’t succumb to anthropomorphism and give White Fang a personal voice: he is a wolf and does not speak. So London tells us what he thinks and feels and does, and he does this so well that the book makes one really believe that this is how an animal thinks and feels and behaves. If one reason to tell a story is to enter into a world that we cannot personally know, then White Fang does this as well as any story ever written.

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Katja H. Labonté

Even Better Than "Call of the Wild."

Reviewed in Canada on September 21, 2020

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5 stars. I read this right after finishing The Call of the Wild. I enjoyed Call of the Wild, but I loved White Fang.

This book starts up with an echo of Call of the Wild, with two men carrying the body of a young Englishman back to civilization after his death under circumstances unknown to the reader. It is the dead of winter, and a time of wild famine; a wolf pack begins hunting the two men and their dogs. Thus we are introduced to one of the main characters—a half-wolf, half-dog female with two suitors. In the course of time one suitor becomes a mate, and little White Fang, quarter-dog and three-quarters wolf, makes his appearance on scene. Once again we are plunged into the Canadian wilderness—but this time it is the forest primeval. It is fascinating to see the development of the wolf cub from birth to a few months, and see how the little wolf family operated. Eventually, when his mother Kiche returns to her Indian masters, White Fang discovers civilization and becomes initiated.

London draws a clever portrait of men, women, and children in these few characters. There is Mit-sah and the other children, cruel and revengeful; Kloo-kooch and the other women, tenderhearted and scolding; and Gray Beaver, stern and just, demanding the utmost obedience but caring for his animals. Beauty Smith and his pals represent the worst evil that can befall a dog in his masters; and I felt a repulsion for him that is not easy to describe, even if London seems to try to shrug a shoulder over him and declare he can’t help who he is (pure rubbish, by the way). And then there is Weedon Scott. I loved Scott for the real love he displayed to White Fang—a love that trusts, sacrifices, and desires the best for its object. His family, too, was delightfully wholesome and Mike is a dear fellow. White Fang himself is far more loveable than Buck—a sweet pup grown to a fierce dog, then a wild fighter, and finally a passionately loving pet. He is a fascinating protagonist.

The plot is a strange and devious path, from the stern Indian village to the wicked dogshows to the sunny Southland. There were many bits that hurt—many bits that made me stop to think—many bits that were poignantly beautiful. It was a portrayal of life, real and passionate and complex and fascinating. The humour is excellent; the writing is splendid; and the ending is perfect…

This book is almost the complete opposite of The Call of the Wild. While that book deals with a domesticated, “civilized” dog being gradually made completely wild and untamed, White Fang is about a wild wolf being tamed and domesticated. His misty thoughts on humanity and civilization are striking. While The Call of the Wild focusses on the might of nature against mankind, White Fang deals with the strength man himself has—the God-given ruling over creation, the intelligence and emotions and power that holds sway over beasts. And most of all, it shows the redeeming strength of love and trust…

Content: Language & violence; evolutionary mindset.

A Favourite Quote: “‘They’ve half got you a’ready, a-talkin’ like that,’ Henry retorted sharply. ‘A man’s half licked when he says he is.’”
A Favourite Beautiful Quote: “Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness—a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild, the savage, frozen-hearted Northland Wild.”

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Digital Panache

Keeps you on the edge

Reviewed in India on October 23, 2019

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John Griffith's own life and personal experience reflect so well in this book which keeps readers on the edge completely from the beginning till the end. The unnatural movement of the wild towards domestication is something quite a thing for an author to build a plot on and write so well and effectively. It's not often that while reading the book you get so emotionally attached to the characters and to do that with animals is a rather difficult exercise. Jack London has succeeded very well in this effort. This book is impeccable in story telling and arousing emotions to the hilt.

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