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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.
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Fiction, Ship captains, Sealing ships, Sealing ships in fiction, Ship captains in fiction, Arctic Regions in fiction, Sealers (Persons), Sealing in fiction, Sealing, Translations into Russian, Sea stories, American Sea stories, American Adventure stories, Sailors, Sealers (Persons in fiction, Sealers (Persons, Sailors in fiction, Allegories, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Society of Friends, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Large type books, Museums, Sugarcane industry, Rum industry, Museo Castillo Serrallés, Fiction, sea stories, Translations into Spanish, Cuentos de mar estadounidenses, Traducciones al español, Arctic regions, fiction, Fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, general, Ship captains -- Fiction, Arctic regions -- Fiction, Sealers (Persons) -- Fiction, Sealing ships -- Fiction, Художественная литература -- США -- Американская литература -- нач. 20 в. -- Романы. ПовестиPeople
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Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904. 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 black for a man to do in one lifetime." The Sea Wolf tells the story of intellectual Humphrey van Weyden's toughening and growth in the face of brutality and hardship. Set adrift after his ferry collides in fog and sinks, van Weyden is pulled out of the sea by Wolf Larsen.
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