The Sea-Wolf (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780486411088)

Hailed by critics as one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this rousing adventure offers a fascinating combination of gritty realism and sublime lyricism in its portrayal of an elemental conflict. Jack London began his career at sea, and his shipboard experiences imbue The Sea-Wolf with flavorful authenticity.
In the story, the gentleman narrator, Humphrey Van Weyden, is pitted against an amoral sea captain, Wolf Larsen, in a clash of idealism with materialism. The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the sea by Larsen's seal-hunting vessel, the Ghost. 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.
Read and loved around the world, this 1904 maritime classic has influenced such writers as Hemingway, Orwell, and Kerouac.

Author: Jack London
ISBN-10: 0486411087
ISBN-13: 9780486411088
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/23/1999
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.32w x 0.62d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 8.1
Point Value: 18
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 717 / Sea-Wolf (Unabridged)