The Sea-Wolf
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Subjects: Sea stories; Ship captains -- Fiction; Arctic regions -- Fiction; Sealers (Persons) -- Fiction; Sealing ships -- Fiction
Description: <p>After a ferry accident on San Francisco Bay, literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is swept out to sea only to be rescued by the seal-hunting schooner <i>Ghost</i>. Wolf Larsen, the captain of the <i>Ghost</i>, is brutal and cynical but also highly intelligent, and he has no intention of returning Van Weyden to shore. Van Weyden is forced to serve on the <i>Ghost</i>, leaving behind his comfortable world ashore and entering into a psychological battle with Larsen on the sea.</p>
			<p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london">Jack London</a> wrote <i>The Sea-Wolf</i> in 1904 following the success of his previous novel <i><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/jack-london/the-call-of-the-wild">The Call of the Wild</a></i>, and it has gone on to become one of his most popular novels. London actually served on a sealing schooner during his early career and that experience lends a gritty realism to his depiction of life at sea. The book can be read as a psychological thriller and adventure novel, but can also be read as a criticism of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/friedrich-nietzsche">Nietzsche’s</a> Übermensch philosophy with Wolf Larsen embodying a “superman” lacking conventional morality.</p>