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White Fang

Jack London

Start date: May 1, 2020

Finish date: May 31, 2020

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Jun 27, 2015 Michael Sump rated it liked it

This is the first book I've read by Jack London since I was a boy. This may simply be a story for adolescent boys, but I've retained enough of that experience to enjoy the book. Jack London skillfully takes us to a place that none of us have ever visited and that none of us ever can. He takes us to the harsh cold of a Yukon winter at the time of the Alaskan golf rush. His narrator is a wolf (¼ dog) named White Fang. White Fang is the only survivor of his litter and he quickly learns that it is a ...more

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Apr 24, 2015 amber rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, books-written-by-men, audio-books, listened-to-2015, district-12-hunger-games-2015

This was going to get two stars, until the ending. I love the ending.

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Feb 28, 2013 Melanti rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, classics, 2013, e-book, adventure

An inverse of "Call of the Wild" - a return to domesticity rather than an escape from. Much more appealing to me - probably 'cause I don't want to imagine any of my pets ever having to make it out on their own!
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