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 | | While both were children of the nineteenth century, they became men of the twentieth century; and their boisterous frontier spirit was prone to subversion by the malaise of the latter era, manifesting itself through such typical symptoms as disenchantment, spiritual alienation, and neurasthenic depression. |
 | | In saving the life of his master's father, Judge Scott, from Hall, White Fang is himself critically wounded: a broken leg, several broken ribs, one of which has pierced his lungs, three bullet holes, and multiple internal injuries. |
 | | While London was at work on White Fang, his pastoral dream was interrupted by another grand vision: "It was all due to Captain Joshua Slocum and his Spray, plus our own wayward tendencies," Charmian recollected in The Book of Jack London. |
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