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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London, featuring a literary critic who is rescued by a ruthless sea captain. The novel explores themes of survival, brutality, love, and philosophy, and is influenced by Nietzsche, Darwin, and Kipling.
- Jack London
- 1904
- I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain.
- I seemed swinging in a mighty rhythm through orbit vastness. Sparkling points of light spluttered and shot past me. They were stars, I knew, and flaring comets, that peopled my flight among the suns.
- Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his cigar and glanced around. His eyes chanced upon the cook. “Well, Cooky?”
- What happened to me next on the sealing-schooner Ghost, as I strove to fit into my new environment, are matters of humiliation and pain. The cook, who was called “the doctor” by the crew, “Tommy” by the hunters, and “Cooky” by Wolf Larsen, was a changed person.
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen.
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The Sea-Wolf, novel by Jack London, published in 1904. This highly popular novel combines elements of naturalism and romantic adventure. The story concerns Humphrey Van Weyden, a refined castaway who is put to work on the motley schooner Ghost. The ship is run by brutal Wolf Larsen, who, despite.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Van Weyden, who can’t swim, is adrift at sea until Wolf Larsen, the captain of a seal-hunting vessel called the Ghost that is headed for hunting grounds in the waters near Japan, stumbles across Van Weyden and brings him aboard his ship.
Dec 1, 1999 · The Sea-Wolf. Jack London. Courier Corporation, Dec 1, 1999 - Fiction - 244 pages. Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating...
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.
