He is a man capable of abandoning two sailors in an open boat, yet he is an avid and thoughtful reader of the moral philosophers. He is Wolf Larsen: captain of the seal-hunting Ghost, the unforgettable protagonist of one of the world's great sea novels. Tormented by his own convictions, Larsen is an enigma both fascinating and repellent to his reluctant crewman, Humphrey Van Weyden. Throughout their long and perilous voyage together, the captain's ruthless belief in the survival of the fittest is pitted against Van Weyden's "civilization"—a contest between two opposing views of life that demonstrates Jack London's gift for expressing complex ideas with exciting action. Together with the other stories selected for this volume, The Sea Wolf is a superb example of the genius of a writer who was, in the words of Maxwell Geismar, "the poet of the savage Darwinian struggle."
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- Jack London - Author
- Brian Emerson - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781481578677
- File size: 281462 KB
- Release date: November 9, 2004
- Duration: 09:46:22
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- ISBN: 9781481578677
- File size: 281717 KB
- Release date: November 9, 2004
- Duration: 09:46:22
- Number of parts: 9
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Lexile® Measure:1020
Text Difficulty:6-8