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The Sea-Wolf

By Jack London
Introduction by Gary Kinder

By Jack London
Introduction by Gary Kinder

By Jack London

By Jack London

By Jack London

By Jack London

Best Seller

Part of Modern Library Classics

Paperback $12.00

Nov 14, 2000 | ISBN 9780679783374

Mass Market Paperback $4.95

Apr 01, 1984 | ISBN 9780553212259

Ebook $1.99

Feb 27, 2007 | ISBN 9780553903461

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    About The Sea-Wolf

    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 realized 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."

    About The Sea-Wolf

    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.

    About The Sea-Wolf

    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.

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    About Jack London

    Jack London—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time… More about Jack London

    About Jack London

    Jack London—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time… More about Jack London

    About Jack London

    Jack London—his real name was John Griffith London—had a wild and colorful youth on the waterfront of Oakland, his native city. Born in 1876, he left school at the age of fourteen and worked in a cannery. By the time… More about Jack London

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction | Classic Fiction

    Paperback | $12.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Nov 14, 2000 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679783374

    Category: Fiction | Classic Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $4.95
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Apr 01, 1984 | 288 Pages | 4-3/16 x 6-7/8 | ISBN 9780553212259

    Category: Fiction | Classic Fiction

    Ebook | $1.99
    Published by Bantam Classics
    Feb 27, 2007 | 288 Pages | ISBN 9780553903461

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