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1904 · 280 pages
The Sea Wolf
by Jack London
When the cultured critic Humphrey Van Weyden is shipwrecked and hauled aboard the seal-hunter Ghost, he is pressed into service under Captain Wolf Larsen — a man of terrifying physical power and unsettling intellect who believes life is nothing but appetite and force.
Published in 1904, The Sea Wolf uses the frame of a maritime adventure to stage a brutal argument between materialism and idealism, strength and conscience. Larsen ranks among the great antagonists in American literature.
This edition presents London's muscular prose in a refined digital setting, formatted for immersive reading across every device.
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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.
When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly. Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay.
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