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This collector's edition is cleanly formatted for easy reading, 12 point Garamond, 1.15 spacing. In his unforgiving world, White Fang, part dog and part wolf, a wonderful creature, adaptable to every situation and challenge life throws at him, grows and responds and is steady on his feet. He is a survivor, with beauty and strength unlimited. He learns to follow the brutal laws of the North-fight to survive or die. Even his experiences in the wild cannot prepare him for the owner who turns him into an unfeeling killer.
A most remarkable book, to change the human heart forever, to make it embrace, respect and honour creatures of the wild. The reader lives each moment through the eyes of White Fang and becomes him, thus honouring the beauty of the wolf and dog. White Fang is a precious and timeless book that will last through the ages. Its very language is like a symphony of the most beautiful and lingering kind. A masterpiece.
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John Griffith "Jack" London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. Some of his most famous works include The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North" and "Love of Life". He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen" and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.
