White Fang

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White Fang is a classic adventure novel by Jack London that follows the brutal yet redemptive life of a wolfdog in the Yukon during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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White Fang canonical 8

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American novel
adventure novel
novel
author Jack London
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPublicationForm serialized
firstPublicationMedium Outing magazine
followsWork The Call of the Wild
form prose
genre adventure fiction
animal fiction
bildungsroman
hasAdaptation White Fang (1925 film)
White Fang (1936 film)
White Fang (1973 film)
White Fang (1991 film)
White Fang (2018 film)
various television adaptations
hasCharacter Beauty Smith
Collie
Gray Beaver
Kiche
Weedon Scott
hasIllustrationsInSomeEditions yes
intendedMarket popular fiction market
literaryMovement naturalism
linked to: Naturalism

realism
mainCharacter White Fang
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
notableFor depiction of a wolfdog’s life from wilderness to domestication
reversal of the theme in The Call of the Wild
originalLanguage English
placeOfWriting California
protagonistSpecies wolfdog
publicationYear 1906
publisher Macmillan
relatedWork The Call of the Wild
setting Yukon Territory
settingPeriod Klondike Gold Rush
structure chronological narrative
targetAudience general audience
theme domestication
human–animal relationship
nature versus nurture
redemption
survival
violence and brutality
timeOfWriting early 20th century
wordCountApproximate 70000–80000

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Jack London notableWork White Fang
John Griffith Chaney notableWork White Fang
Chaney notableWorkOfBearer White Fang
White Fang mainCharacter White Fang
John Griffith Chaney notableWork White Fang
subject linked to: John
Jeanne Rosenberg notableWork White Fang
Donald Kushner producerOf White Fang