![]() ![]() The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful. Like the Ghost of the novel, the Sophie sailed to the. the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime. The Sea-Wolf, one of Jack London’s best-known novels, is based in large part on his 1893 voyage aboard the Sophia Sutherland (or Sophie ). Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing-and it is among the greatest of things-is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen. 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. 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. The Sea Wolf by Jack London Readers Digest Deluxe Edition 1989. ![]() The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London. ![]()
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