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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.
May 6, 2013 · A classic adventure novel about a literary critic who joins a seal-hunting schooner and faces a brutal captain. Read ratings, reviews, quotes, and more on Goodreads, the world's largest community for readers.
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Learn about Jack London's classic adventure novel The Sea-Wolf, inspired by his own experiences at sea and social Darwinism. Find summaries, analysis, themes, quotes, characters, symbols, and more.
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 novel by Jack London that depicts the survival of a refined castaway on a brutal ship. Learn about the plot, characters, themes, and historical context of this classic work of American literature.
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A literary critic is rescued by a ruthless seal hunter and becomes his cabin boy. He faces danger, violence, and romance on the high seas and an isolated island.
A film based on Jack London's novel about a brutal sea captain and his prisoners on a seal-hunting ship. Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino and John Garfield star in this classic movie nominated for two Oscars.
