White Fang

Credits and rights

Original writer

Jack London

Publisher of this edition

BoingyBooks Classics

Original publisher

Project Gutenberg

Adaptation credits

John Shoufler / BoingyBooks Classics — digital edition

Original source / edition

White Fang (1906)

License

Public Domain

License link

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Rights and adaptation notice

This work is in the public domain. John Shoufler published this digital edition through BoingyBooks Classics. The original work remains public domain and may be copied, adapted, and shared.

White Fang by Jack London (1906)

The companion novel to The Call of the Wild, told in reverse: a wild wolf-dog hybrid is gradually domesticated. Where Buck journeys from civilization to wilderness, White Fang journeys from wilderness to civilization. London's meditation on nature versus nurture.

Historical Significance:
London intended White Fang as "a companion book to The Call of the Wild — the reverse process, the evolution and domestication of an animal." Serialized in the magazine Outing from May to October 1906, it explored whether love and kindness could overcome a lifetime of brutality — a question London, who had survived a desperate childhood of poverty and abuse, knew intimately. The novel has been adapted into multiple films and remains one of the most popular animal stories ever written.

This public domain classic was originally published in 1906. Free to read and share.