The Call of the Wild & White Fang

by Jack London

Overview

White Fang is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which concerns a kidnapped, domesticated dog turning into a wild animal.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515429005
Publisher:	Wilder Publications
Publication date:	04/03/2018
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Jack London was born in San Francisco on January 12th 1876, the unwanted child of spiritualist and music teacher, Flora Wellman. He was raised by Virginia Prentiss, a former slave, before rejoining his mother and her new husband, John London. Largely self-educated, the teenage Jack made money stealing oysters and working on a schooner before briefly studying at the University of Berkeley in 1896. He left to join the Klondike Gold Rush a year later, a phenomenon that would go on to form the background of his literary masterpieces, The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Alongside his novel writing, London dabbled in war reportage, agriculture and politics. He was married twice and had two daughters from his first marriage. London died in 1916 from complications of numerous chronic illnesses.

Table of Contents

The Call of the Wild
 I. Into the Primitive
II. The Law of Club and Fang
III. The Dominant Primordial Beast
IV. Who Has Won to Mastership
V. The Toil of Trace and Trail
VI. For the Love of a Man
VII. The Sounding of the Call
 
 
                   White Fang
Part One: The Wild
I. The Trail of the Meat
II. The She-Wolf
III. The Hunger Cry
 
Part Two: Born of the Wild
IV. The Battle of the Fangs
V. The Lair
VI. The Gray Cub
VII. The Wall of the World
VIII. The Law of Meat
 
Part Three: The Gods of the Wild
IX. The Makers of Fire
X. The Bondage
XI. The Outcast
XII. The Trail of the Gods
XIII. The Covenant
XIV. The Famine
 
Part Four: The Superior Gods
XV. The Enemy of His Kind
XVI. The Mad God
XVII. The Reign of Hate
XVIII. The Clinging Death
XIX. The Indomitable
XX. The Love-Master
 
Part Five: The Tame
XXI. The Long Trail
XXII. The Southland
XXIII. The God’s Domain
XXIV. The Call of Kind
XXV. The Sleeping Wolf

Editorial Reviews

 • "I can't celebrate the romantic ideas or the killing of savages in this book. But I can say I'm fascinated by it and that I find it worth going back to. It's a story which has gained its own life and will probably be with us for as long as we're reading books." —David Vann, Daily Telegraph

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