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'''''White Fang''''' is a 1906 novel written by [[Jack London]], often published together with ''[[The Call of the Wild]]'' nowadays. Whereas the latter 1903 novella is the story of a tame dog adapting to the wild, ''White Fang'' is the story of how the titular wild one-quarter-dog-three-quarters-wolf becomes tamed.
The novel starts with two men and their dog sled team being pursued by a wolf pack in the Northland Wild. Desperate for food during a famine, the wolves eventually kill all of the dogs and one of the men before the other is rescued. The starving pack eventually splits up, the She-Wolf who lured the sled dogs to their doom going off with her mate, whom the narrator refers to as [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|One Eye]]. The two raise a litter of pups, only for One Eye and all the litter except one to die. The She-Wolf and her surviving pup eventually meet up with a group of Inuits; one of them, Grey Beaver, recognizes the She-Wolf as Kiche, his brother's runaway half-wolf-half-dog, and takes possession of her and her pup, whom he names White Fang.
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Definitely ''not'' a [[Coming of Age Story]] about [[A Boy and His Dog]] but a harsh look at life in the rugged Northland Wild where only the strong survive and an ugly examination of the forces that shape the clay that is the human mind.
The novel was adapted to a namesake film in 1991, directed by Randal Kleiser. The film cast a real wolfdog, Jed, into the role, with [[Ethan Hawke]] cast as his beloved master Jack Conroy. It was a modest box office hit, earning $34,793,160 in the United States market. It is still well-regarded. It also spawned a sequel,
There was an television series based on the novel between 1993 and 1994. Not related to the films above, though probably inspired by the success of the first one. It lasted a single season, 26 episodes. All episodes are available on DVD.
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* [[Artistic Licence Biology]]: The fact that no male wolf will ever fight a female wolf or dog, even if attacked by one. Then there are inaccuracies in wolf pack structure, hunting, mating behavior...
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