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White Fang

White Fang

London, Jack

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN10: 1495320219
ISBN13: 9781495320217
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 25 2014
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
In 1904 London wrote to his editor about his idea for his next book: Not a sequel to 'Call of the Wild.' But a companion to it. I'm going to reverse the process. Instead of a devolution or decivilization of a dog, I'm going to give the evolution, the civilization of a dog--development of domesticity, faithfulness, love, morality, and all the amenities and virtues. That, in a nutshell, is the plot of White Fang. And because London designed the books to be mirror images, the second book is almost inevitably compared to the first. White Fang is a worthy companion (or sequel) to Call of the Wild, and it imagines in far more detail what life in the wild and in the human world must seem like to a dog. The opening perspective, too, is different; while Call of the Wild begins when Buck is a young dog, White Fang opens before the hero is born, describing a famine that afflicts his half-wolf mother and full-wolf father and continuing through his birth and puppy-hood. The action for White Fang picks up noticeably when the young wolf stumbles upon a tribe of nomadic Indians. From there, his life is beyond his control, changing hands from owner to owner, first as a sled dog and then as a fighting dog, until he is rescued by a humane master. More than twice as long as Call of the Wild, White Fang describes many more adventures and characters. At the same time, what distinguishes Call of the Wild is its powerful, insightful brevity; here, London's imaginings are more expansive. Even as London philosophizes about human life allegorically, through the mind of the dog, his passages at times border on exaggerated anthropomorphism, such as when White Fang sees San Francisco for the first time: Through it all, behind it all, was man, governing and controlling, expressing himself, as of old, by his mastery over matter. It was colossal, stunning. White Fang was awed. Fear sat upon him. . . . As never before, he felt his dependence on the love-master, close at whose heels he followed, no matter what happened never losing sight of him. The novel's ending, which will bring tears to many an eye, is completely unexpected. Not just a kid's book, White Fang was written for the child in all of us.

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