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The Sea-Wolf

By Jack London
Series: Modern Library Classics
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The Sea-Wolf is a gripping tale of survival and philosophy set on the high seas. It follows Humphrey Van Weyden, a refined scholar who, after a ferry accident, is saved by a ruthless seal-hunting schooner. Under the command of the brutal Wolf Larsen, Van Weyden faces harrowing challenges that test his courage and will to live, while the narrative probes profound themes of ambition and human nature.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This classic adventure will engage readers who appreciate intense psychological drama, seafaring adventures, and complex character studies.

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A young art critic is forced to endure the wrath of Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing-schooner that rescues him after a shipwreck.

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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar, Humphrey Van Weyden, who is rescued by a seal-hunting schooner after a ferryboat accident in San Francisco Bay.

London uses Van Weyden's ordeal at the hands of a schooner's devious crew to explore powerful themes of ambition, courage, and the innate will to survive. The Sea-Wolf also introduces Jack London's most memorable, fully realised character, Wolf Larsen, the schooner's brutal captain, who ruthlessly crushes anyone standing in his way.

As Gary Kinder states in his Introduction, "Wolf Larsen is one of the most carefully carved characters in American literature....London, himself, seems as fascinated as the reader with his own creation."

Series: Modern Library Classics

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James Dickey praised London’s work as "a vision of exceptional and crucial vitality."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780679783374

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 November 2000

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House USA Inc

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Gary Kinder

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 202.0mm

Weight: 252g

Pages: 320

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Fiction General Fiction Jack London Literary Fiction Penguin Books Series: Modern Library Classics

About the Author

Jack London(1876-1916) was born John Chaney in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1896 he was caught up in the gold rush to the Klondike River in northwest Canada, which became the inspiration forThe Call of the Wild (1903) andWhite Fang(1906). London is one of the most widely read writers in the world. Gary Kinder is thebestselling author ofVictim- The Other Side of Murder,Light Years- An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier, andShip of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea- The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck. He lives in Seattle.

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