White Fang Books

Love this book and have loved reading Call of the Wild, since I was 9 or 10.
I also recommend the other collection because it has a few this one doesn't. The Portable Jack London (Viking Portable Library) The thing I liked in addition are the old letters he wrote. Cool reflection and time travel to that time period.

Novels and Stories was the first of a two volume set that I scored for cheap on ebay a few years ago. The second, Novels and Social writings concentrates on his political/social novels and essays while this one is comprised of his Alaskan and sea bearing adventure stories.

This book weighs in at over 1000 pages and includes three GREAT novels in Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf and White Fang as well as multitudes of his short stories.

I can't say enough about how much I love Londons writings and how much admiration I have for him as a man as well. I've read Call of the Wild about every two years or so since the first time I read it as a child and I get more out of it every time I re-read it. His adventure stories on one level are just great red blooded adventure stories that anyone who has any heart or spirit would enjoy and there is a deeper level to London as well. His stories are highly spiritual if you are able to look at them on another level. Although thats something that you have to "feel" from within I suppose.

After reading this book for school, (not that I was forced to) I gave it a 4/5 star rating. It was excellent when it came to the setting of the story. Even though it is a very short, it crams alot of suspensfull and interesting moments into 100 some odd pages. This book is quite good and page turning. I highly recommend it to readers who like a mix of reality and fantasy in one. Masterful piece of writing.

You can't lump too many people into the same sphere with London...Twain, Poe, and Lovecraft are a few that spring to mind. He's an American Titan, and he gets the fawning treatment you'd expect from the Library of America in this exemplary, extraordinary, green-registered book.

Call of the Wild is a page-turning yarn about a dog that becomes a wolf. It's listed on the MLA 100, but any competent kid of ten could tackle it...and enjoy it.

White Fang is a canine bildungsroman that inverts the plot of Call of the Wild, with the wolf becoming a dog. Also a page-turner, also something a kid would read without having to be coerced, and possessed of a truly classic scene where White Fang fights a bulldog.

The Klondike Short Stories are all superb--some people think London's metier was the short story rather than the novel--with Batard being a personal favorite.

The Sea-Wolf is a work of genius...until it all comes crashing down with the introduction of Maud Brewster, and the escape to Endeavour Island. What had heretofore been a truly transcendent work of art transmogrifies into a clunky, melodramatic, and tedious chore, where London's love of sailing jargon threatens to overwhelm the reader.

The Selected Short Stories show that London wasn't just a Yukon guy...he had some other arrows in his quiver. A few stories demonstrate his--at the time--devout socialism, which lasted up until he himself got rich. The Apostate is the weakest of these, but The Strength of the Strong is a pretty good allegory for fin-de-siecle capitalism, with all its gory excesses. London also writes convincingly about such diverse topics as boxing, South Sea cannibals, and straight-up science fiction.

This book of books is excellent, and any American who fancies himself a lover of literature would be remiss in not reading it.

This book was really good, but I believe that White Fang was better. Many settings took place, but I will start with the main ones. The first setting in this book was Judge Millers Mansion. The second is the dog breakers place, in which Buck (the main character, a dog,) learns the "law of Club and Fang." The third place is where Buck learns the method of husky fighting, and because the other dog died, he lived a long and well-lived life. The first major event in this book is when a person steals Buck from Judge Miller, and he is starved and strangled and is thrown in a shed to wait for a train to the dog breaker. There, he is introduced to the primitive law of club and fang. After that, he, and a Newfoundland, are taken to Alaska. There, he is introduced to the method of Husky Fighting, and then is put into the harness, and is put to work on the mushing sled. The next major event is when Buck is taken of his first mushing trip in the wild. There he learns how to keep warm in the harsh winters by digging into the snow and having your body heat heat up the space. The next area is when Buck and Spitz finally fight to the death, and Buck takes the position of lead dog on the mushing track. Finally, the last major setting is when Buck finaly turns to the wild, and he attacks the YeeHats with a vengance, because they had killed his LOVED master. The conflict in this book is Buck is a spoilled rotten dog, until he reaches the North and finds that he has wild ancestors. They eventually take over Buck and he lives with the wild.

First story so beautiful and poignant, it brought tears to my eyes. London displays a true understanding of the deeper reaches of nature. A remarkably real parable of the civilized dog brought back to his wild roots. "White Fang", longer and wildly overwritten, is nevertheless deeply affecting also. Romantic, sentimental, and perhaps somewhat unrealistic. Each story was wonderful and very individual, somewhat amazing considering there are 40 of them. "The Sea Wolf" was the best of all, I thought. The character of Wolf Larsen was just totally intriguing. And I have never forgotten (and will probably carry with me to my grave) a line from that book, uttered by Larsen. To paraphase - The most abundant thing on this planet is not air, or water or land. They are all perishable, or can be ruined or consumed in some way or another. It is life, life itself, that is everywhere. Wolf Larsen was one of the most unforgettable characters in fiction that I have ever run across. An amoral man to the nth degree.

If you like the movies you will love these stories. Combines page turning reading with a poetic quality that only Jack London can develop.

Loved White Fang so much I have gone on and read everything this man ever wrote. If you love the outdoors, and can live without T.V. a few nights then get this one. You will not regret the money well spent.

By Jack London The story I read is called The Call of the Wild. The story is about a dog named Buck who was stolen from his owner (Judge Miller) and sold to people in the north. He was used as a sled dog and he was beaten and abused by many people. He had to watch his friends be beaten to death because they would not follow orders. Indians kill his friends. Buck found other friends and lived in the wild. I liked the book and you should check it out.

I loved the book and reccomend it to everyone. it was sad because Buck was stolen and not able to enter the 'call of the wild'. I enjoyed it because it was emotional and i enjoy those kind of books. Thank You Jack London(even though he's dead) for writting such a wonderful book.

Good, simple reader for younger reader. Purchased for Special Ed reading. I would recommend this book to any parent (teacher) of a Special Ed student.

After reading this book there were many things I liked. First of all I liked where White Fang got into a fight with a Saint Bernard. I like this because he almost killed it. Secondly I liked where he tried to bite Beauty Smith and he smacked White Fang on the head with his cane. I liked this because from then on White Fang hated him. Lastly I liked where the guy that saved White Fang gave him a good home and was never mean to him. I liked this because White Fang had a bad life since he was a cub. All in all this is a very good book and I recommend this book to every one.

It is known that the tribebooks feature a story throughout the first coule of chapters. For most of these, the story often gets in the way of the information. However, in this tribebook the story reads like a novel, as King Albrecht is talked to by a group of Russian Fangs. In fact, this is the prequel to the last Werewolf novel, Last Battle. It also has all the neat new gifts and fetishes that Werewolf fans want in their tribebooks.

Highly recommended.

I'm a fan of Albrecht, so this book really stands out XD

It was also nice to see he has no diplomatics skills whatsoever, the true Ahroun XDDD

This book has some nice sidekicks and I really enjoyed Albrecht's jokes.

The story was really fluent, and as also happens in the second tribe novel of this book, it really gets more and more interesting with every turning page.

Also the Glass Walker part of it is great XD

White Fang was one of my favorites growing up. It is a classic tale of devotion and nature vs nuture!

The perspective of a wolf or a dog may not seem interesting or even plausible, but somehow Jack London's 'character's' in Call of the Wild and White Fang ring with a genuine and yes, realistic, rendering of the life of a wolf and a dog.

The force of these two lovely stories is the idea of nature and the essence of primordial wilderness that lies within all beings, man and animal. But from the perspective of the animal for man, ultimately, is predictable but animals, by nature, are always wild, free and unpredictable. And most poignantly, it is also a tale of love between man and his best friend.

I don't know how one would go about 'being in the mind of a dog or a wolf' but if anyone has done it with such fluidity, beauty and chilling depictions...it is London, no question. The language is expressive, emotional and lyrical. The scenes of the action are vicious and sharp. The stlye, tone and language will elicit some reaction & you can't but help relate to the them too...yes, relate. London has done a wonderful job of melding opposing forces that is vivd and powerful and cativating.

A short bio is given, short but not too lagging. For some reason they put Call of the Wild as the second rather than the first story, considering Call of the Wild is the 'sequel'--of sorts. However, reading one before the other will not interfere between the stories, there are no references between the two. This book preserved the style and language of London but it is quite easy to read. And luckily, it has not been modified to a more modern rendition, which I always apprecaite and it makes the stories so much more richer and set your mind to the timeframe in the stories.

Read it and it'll be keeper in your library!

White Fang 2 myth of the white wolf
Elizabeth Faucher
Published in 1994

The name of my book is called White Fang 2. There are four main characters - a man named, Henry, his wolf, White Fang, a young Haida woman, named Lily, and the Haida chief, named Moses. In the story Henry wants gold. First he gets the gold , and then he loses it while Lily saves his life. Then he loses White Fang, his best friend, in the river. I think the moral of the story is that money isn't more important than love and friendship. Henry changes by realizing that money isn't more important than love and freindship. I loved this book so much that on a scale of one to five I would give this book a ten. That's how much I loved this book. If you love Native Americans you will love this book.I reccomend this book to ages 8 and up.