About the Author
John Griffith London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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 about the South Pacific in stories such as "The Pearls of Parlay", and "The Heathen".
Book Description
White Fang, who is appropriately named thus, is the only pup in the litter of the cunning she-wolf who survives to grow into a ferocious and mean wolf-dog. But does he remain wild and free for the rest of his life? How does he fall into the hands of his bitter enemy, man? How does he come into the good books of his saviour, Scott? How does white Fang repay the man he grows to love and look up to? A thrilling tale of how the wild wolf was domesticated and tamed by man through firmness and love and grew to be a part of a happy, contented human family.