White Fang
Read White Fang by Jack London in Russian and English, a parallel text graded reader with audio. Available in CEFR levels A2, B1, B2, and C2.
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Two men haul a coffin across the frozen North on a birch-bark sled, low on ammunition, ringed each night by gleaming eyes suspended in the blackness at the edge of their fire. A she-wolf with a strange reddish coat trots calmly onto the trail behind them, studies them with a wistfulness "bred of hunger, as cruel as its own fangs," and vanishes the instant a rifle rises. So Jack London opens White Fang: with the Wild itself as a presence, an old law that aims always to destroy movement, because life, to the Wild, is an offence.
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По обеим сторонам замёрзшей реки стоял тёмный еловый лес.
Dark spruce forest stood on both sides of the frozen river.
Недавно ветер сбросил с деревьев белый иней.
A recent wind had blown the white frost off the trees.
Теперь в угасающем свете они казались чёрными и страшными, и будто наклонялись друг к другу.
Now they seemed to lean toward each other, black and frightening, in the fading light.
Огромная тишина лежала над землёй.
A huge silence covered the land.
Сама земля была пустой, мёртвой и неподвижной.
The land itself was empty, dead and still.
Здесь было так холодно и одиноко, что даже не чувствовалась грусть.
It was so cold and lonely that it did not even feel sad.
В этой тишине было что-то похожее на смех, но он был хуже любой грусти.
There was something like laughter in it, but it was worse than any sadness.
History
- Written by Jack London in English
- Adapted by Line by Line Publishing in 2026