White Fang

by Jack London

Category: Fiction

Status: Available

Source: Public Domain — Project Gutenberg

About This Book

"White Fang" by Jack London is a novel first serialized in 1906. It follows a wild wolfdog's transformation from the brutal wilderness of the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush to eventual domestication. Through the eyes of its canine protagonist, the story explores the violent worlds of both animals and humans, chronicling White Fang's journey through starvation, abuse, and savage dog-fighting before finding redemption. This companion novel to "The Call of the Wild" examines themes of survival, morality, and the possibility of transformation. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

About the Author

American · 1876–1916

He wrote The Call of the Wild and other tales of survival. His stories deal with the power of nature and the will to live.

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WHITE FANG

by Jack London

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PART I

CHAPTER I THE TRAIL OF THE MEAT

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 a

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