The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden. The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen. Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over his ship and terrorizes the crew with the aid of his exceptionally great physical strength.
Book source ~ Purchased at Chirp
Jack London ~ author
Noah Michael Levine ~ narrator
1 January 1904 ~ first published
10 November 2022 ~ audiobook
Classics | Historical Fiction
Psychological | Adventure
10 hrs 4 mins
My Rating ~ 4 bites
I listened to this back in August and it has stuck with me. Wolf Larsen is such a brutal man. I don’t care how harsh the conditions out there on the open sea, his brutality is extreme. Yikes. What an asshole. I do admire how he educated himself though and bought himself a ship to hunt seals. Humphrey van Weyden sure gets an education himself at the hands of the Sea-Wolf. The addition of a lady love to the mix strains credulity and the ending is a bit too tidy, but overall this is a tale that has settled into my psyche and I don’t think it will leave for a very long time.
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