Jack London

White Fang (Annotated) Jack London

This Edition of White Fang is the Original 1906 Edition and Is Annotated.

White Fang follows the story about a wolf-dog hybrid named White Fang who is born in the wild, where the conditions are harsh and unforgiving. When he is separated from his mother, a she-wolf called Kiche. He goes through challenges, first among a pack of dogs, who won't accept him. Then when he attempts to reunite with his mother, he is not accepted, because she has had a new litter and must protect them. Bought by a dogfighter when he is 5, White Fang is forcefully rescued by a wealthier gold hunter named Weedon Scott. After more challenges and adventures, White Fang is subsequently tamed.

Jack London (1876-1916) is known to most readers as the author of adventure novels and short stories for children, young people and adults, or as an adventurer "on the spot", which has influenced the credibility of his descriptions of wild, untouched nature. However, he also occupies a significant place in the history of science fiction, though in its day it was not yet an isolated literary genre.

Jack was born on January 12, 1876, at the corner of Third and Brannan Street in San Francisco. His mother Flora Wellman was the youngest child of Marshall Wellman, a Pennsylvania builder, and Eleanor Garrett Jones.