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Books : The Sea-Wolf (Modern Library Classics) |
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780679783374
Feature: Kinder, Gary
ISBN: 0679783377
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: November 14, 2000
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: November 14, 2000
Studio: Modern Library
Sales Rank: 1661800
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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. As Gary Kinder states in his Introduction, "Wolf Larsen is one of the most carefully carved characters in American literature....London, himself, seems as fascinated as the reader with his own creation."
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This is a really good book. Jack London was one of the greatest writers in history. The story if you don't know is about a refined man who is on a ship and it goes down only for him to be "rescued" by another one. I put rescue in quotes because the ship he gets on (the Ghost) is ruled over by the legendary Sea Wolf Wolf Larsen. Larsen does not believe in any sort of moral code and also thinks that might makes right. As such, he commands his ship with a system of fear and intimidation and refuses ... Read More
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The Sea Wolf is Jack London's classic tale of one man's personal journey. Enter Humphrey Van Weyden a self-proclaimed "softie" who is rescued on the high seas by a ruthless Schooner Captain named Wolf Larsen. Larsen lives up to his first name by putting Van Weyden-or "Hump" as Larsen calls him -through a series of trials and hardships on his ship the GHOST, which serve to mold the previously docile Van Weyden into an independent man. Along the way "Hump" witnesses the cruely and inhuman nature Larsen ... Read More
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The Seawolf is a great story, definitely written in the early 1900s style, similar to Jules Verne, etc. In a way, it makes you want to be out on the open sea!
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The Sea Wolf contains familiar themes of other Jack London books. Man (or animal) from a comfortable background thrown into in a life and death struggle with the forces of nature due to a bad twist of fate.
Also the Wolf Larsen characters philosophizing in this book led many to believe that the book Might is Right (which Anton Lavey later plaigarized and renamed The Satanic Bible) was ghostwritten by Jack London. I dont believe London wrote Might is Right because after doing the math he would ... Read More
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My son needed this book for assigned reading at school. The book quality itself is as with any new book, perfect. As for the story line, like I said, it was assigned reading. Jack London has written some classic stories, but I can't say they are considered to be among the books that your child "just can't put down" while reading.. (except for the fact that we won't let them put it down until they are done with the assignment) My son is in 6th grade, but I believe this book is most likely for 8th grade or higher ... Read More
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780679783374
Feature: Kinder, Gary
ISBN: 0679783377
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: November 14, 2000
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: November 14, 2000
Studio: Modern Library
Sales Rank: 1661800
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