Italian · Beginner
Read Zanna Bianca in Italianwith every sentence explained
English title: White Fang
Jack London · 1906
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About the book
Zanna Bianca by Jack London was first published in 1906. In Passage you read the full text in the Italian translation by Gian Dàuli, marked beginner and filed under young adult. It runs to about 56,300 words.
Born wild. Raised by men. Torn between two worlds.
In the frozen silence of the Yukon, two men and their sled dogs are hunted night after night by a starving wolf pack. Among the wolves runs a strange she-wolf, half dog, who lures the dogs away one by one. Soon after, in a cave by a river, she gives birth to a grey cub: White Fang.
He learns the law of the Wild early: eat or be eaten. But fate brings him to a camp of Native Americans, and then into the hands of white men, some kind and some cruel. Will the young wolf-dog become a savage fighter, or can he learn to trust?
Jack London's 1906 classic, a companion to The Call of the Wild, is one of the great animal stories of all time, here in Gian Dàuli's classic Italian translation. It has inspired many films, including Disney's 1991 adaptation.
- Author
- Jack London
- First published
- 1906
- Language
- Italian
- Translated by
- Gian Dàuli
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Young Adult
- Length
- About 56,300 words
How it opens
Da ciascun lato del fiume gelato, si stendeva l’immensa foresta d’abeti, fosca e minacciosa. Gli alberi, sbarazzati di fresco del loro manto di brina dal vento, sembravano appoggiarsi gli uni sugli altri, neri e fatidici, contro la luce del giorno che impallidiva. La terra era tutt’una desolazione infinita e senza vita, dove nulla si moveva, e così fredda e deserta che, davanti ad essa il pensiero stesso si ritraeva, sorpassando la tristezza. Una specie di voglia di ridere pareva sopraffare l’animo ed era un riso tragico, come di Sfinge, un riso agghiacciato e senza gioia, come un sarcasmo dell’Eterno sulla futilità della vita e sulla vanità dei nostri sforzi.
Reading Zanna Bianca in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Italian. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of Italian and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
