After the success of The Call of the Wild, Jack London turned to a different challenge: instead of telling the story of a domestic animal going wild, what about a wild animal becoming civilized? This novel follows the birth and raising of a wolf cub in the wild, who earns the name White Fang, but finds itself being broken by a man and finding his place in the world of humans.
This Canon Classic is full of adventure, excitement, and the thrill of the wilderness.
250 pages.
"I have been guilty of writing two books about dogs. The writing of these two stories, on my part, was in truth a protest against the "humanizing" of animals, of which it seemed to me several "animal writers" had been profoundly guilty. Time and again, and many times, in my narratives, I wrote, speaking of my dog-heroes: "He did not think these things; he merely did them," etc. And I did this repeatedly, to the clogging of my narrative and in violation of my artistic canons; and I did it in order to hammer into the average human understanding that these dog-heroes of mine were not directed by abstract reasoning, but by instinct, sensation and emotion, and by simple reasoning." ~Jack London
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