#50 in Adventure
White Fang
- 238
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- Film 1991 +8
- On screen
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Our view
“White Fang” follows a wild wolfdog’s slow passage towards people, and it is harsher and more moving than most animal stories. London shows the northern wilderness without sentiment and measures his human characters by how they treat the animal, cruelly or kindly. Some readers feel the middle section marks time, but the opening and the final chapters are powerful.
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About the book
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) about a wild wolfdog's journey to domestication in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush. First serialized in Outing magazine between May and October 1906, it was published in book form in October 1906. It is a companion novel to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild (1903), which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 9 times — from 1925 to 2018.
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- FilmThe White FangIMDb
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- FilmWhite Fang 2: Myth of the White WolfIMDb
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- SeriesThe Legend of White FangIMDb
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Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 486 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 77% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.0 | 67 | 14% |
| Google Books | 8.0 | 7 | 1% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 412 | 85% |
Frequently asked
How long is White Fang?
It has 238 pages — shorter than 62% of the ranked books in Adventure.
In this book
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