The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing-and it is among the greatest of things-is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful."

"The Sea-Wolf" is a 1904 psychological adventure about a literary critic and survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation... Jack London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf.

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London.The book is a murderous tyrant who uses his superhuman strength to torture and destroy, his brilliant mind to invent sick games, and his relentless will to control his mutinous crew. 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.Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing--and it is among the greatest of things--is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime...The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful.

Chronicles the voyages of a ship run by the ruthless Wolf Larsen, among the greatest of London's characters, and spokesman for an extreme individualism London intended to critique.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.

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel through American creator Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who's a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes beneath the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the effective and amoral sea captain who rescues him.

The author, Jack London, does wonders in this one, The Sea-Wolf. It is, amongst other books, one of the very best, and it even ranks as one of Jack London's top three, those being The Call of the Wild and White Fang. These stories are all endowed with a supreme being, where nature, animal, and human become merged into one entity, one single identity. This is literally the case for The Sea-Wolf. It does, once again, portray the main character, or one of them, as the black sheep, the hybrid, the loose canon in all of the character, but it does so in a different manner. This manner, in which the book is written, does not begin to cherish how Jack London's thoughts are deep. This aforementioned depth is none like the other, for it gives a new sense of identity, where all is integrated, all is one, and none are alike, nonetheless. This book is filled with raw human emotion, as well as animalistic, primal even, one might call it. However, it does not disgust the reader one bit. As a matter of fact, it interacts with them, as if it were another human being interacting with them. They feel engaged with, talked to, and, most importantly, drawn to the book itself, to its ideas. So on and so forth! The plot revolves around an intellectual named Humphrey Van Weyden. This man was brought to self-reliance due to the hardships life doted on him. This cruelty, brutality, and bitterness of life changed him completely. The story begins with a soft undertone with the protagonist. However, that sheltered view of life is soon shattered to pieces as they collide with another ship-where his story started-and everything crumbles down. The Sea-Wolf takes a turn for the psychological, as the protagonist is a queer individual, hedonist, and materialist. He embarks on a journey for the spiritual, racking his mind between two choice-pleasure or a new-found sense of immortality. In addition to the surface meaning provided by the author, there is a rip in the fabric of reality, where appearances deceive the not-so-keen eye, precisely when the author tampers with philosophy, biology, and psychoanalysis!

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing--and it is among the greatest of things--is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful."