The Sea Wolf

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Sea Wolf
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jack London
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 171,Width 107
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780553212259
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Bantam Books Inc
Publication Date 1 April 1984
Publication Country United States

Description

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.

Author Biography

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.