Name: White Fang
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Author: Weaver, Carl E. ; London, Jack
ISBN: 9781944616113

Type

Physical Book

Author

Jack London

Illustrated by

Carl E. Weaver

Publisher

Broken Column Press

Language

English

Pages

228

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN13

9781944616113

Synopsis "White Fang"

A Tale of The WolfMr. Jack London has written another capital animal story. The opening chapters describing a wolf pack on the meat trail are thrilling in the extreme. As a piece of vivid descriptive writing, Mr. London has never done anything better. There is something of the gruesomeness of one of Edgar Allen Poe's tales in his account of how the famished wolves hunted their victims across the snow. The scene in which the survivor crouching in the centre of a ring of fire surrounded by a circle of starving wolves who look upon him hungrily as a delayed meal that is soon to be eaten, is one which cannot be easily forgotten. The rest of the book is devoted to a description of the birth, upbringing, and adventures of White Fang, the offspring of a union of a dog and a wolf Nature, as Mr. London describes it, is indeed red in tooth and claw. The hunt for food among the wild animals is described with a minuteness that some readers will regard as excessive. Nor is there much improvement in this respect when the wolf cub becomes a servant of man. The savage struggle for existence still continues. A more humane element is only introduced towards the close of the book when White Fang comes into the possession of a Californian who masters his savage nature by the power of love. It is a powerful story and is certainly one of the best books that the present year has yet brought us.From The Review of Reviews, Vol. XXXV, Jan-June 1907, Pag 321.

Jack London

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Jack London (1876-1916), pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, is one of the great American writers of the early 20th century. His world is inspired by a very subjective interpretation of Nietzsche's philosophy and is built on the principle of survival of the fittest. Born in San Francisco, he was essentially a self-taught child who avidly read the collections of the public library. At seventeen, he embarked on his first schooner, heading to Japan. After several experiences as a sailor and vagabond -which also led to his imprisonment-, London attended Oakland High School and later, the University of California, which he had to leave due to financial problems. Like many, he suffered from gold fever until he finally turned to writing.

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