The Sea Wolf

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure
novel by American writer Jack London about a literary critic and other survivors
of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful
and amoral sea captain who rescues them. Its first printing of forty thousand
copies were immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's
previous The Call of the Wild. 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 enough for a man to do in one
lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible
proprieties, is awful."

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