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The Sea-Wolf
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ISBN10: 0486411087
ISBN13: 9780486411088
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: Dec 23 1999
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780486411088
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: Dec 23 1999
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental conflict. Jack London began his career at sea, and his shipboard experiences imbue The Sea-Wolf with flavorful authenticity.
In the story, the gentleman narrator, Humphrey Van Weyden, is pitted against an amoral sea captain, Wolf Larsen, in a clash of idealism with materialism. The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the sea by Larsen's seal-hunting vessel, the Ghost. Pressed into service as a cabin boy by the ruthless captain, Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a brutal shipboard drama. Larsen's increasingly violent abuse of the crew fuels a mounting tension that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation.
Read and loved around the world, this 1904 maritime classic has influenced such writers as Hemingway, Orwell, and Kerouac.
Read and loved around the world, this 1904 maritime classic has influenced such writers as Hemingway, Orwell, and Kerouac.
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