The Sea Wolf
Feb 2007 · Bantam Classics
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The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The men who sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captain himself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent brute of a man.
Jack London was a worshipper of the strong and virtuous hero, and a firm believer in the inevitable triumph of good. The master storyteller nowhere demonstrates this theme more vividly than in this classic American tale of peril and adventure, good and evil.
Jack London was a worshipper of the strong and virtuous hero, and a firm believer in the inevitable triumph of good. The master storyteller nowhere demonstrates this theme more vividly than in this classic American tale of peril and adventure, good and evil.
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16 July 2015
I had read both White Fang and Call of the wild several times over the years... it is only now, at age 44 that I read this beautiful novel. Plenty of action and as adventure, but this time from a human perspective. I wish I could have met Jack London.
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Edward O'Connor
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13 November 2019
Typical Jack London, he catches our humanity, our foibles and triumphs, romance, love and hate in a well written adventure novel.
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Lorraine Kidd
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23 February 2017
Fascinating rough and tumble adventure story, with just enough romance in it for me!
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About the author
Jack London (1876-1916), by turns a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent, and an avowed socialist, first achieved fame with The Son of the Wolf (1900), a collection of short stories drawn from his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. "The greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived," said Alfred Kazin.
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