The Sea-Wolf is Jack London's 1904 adventure novel set aboard a sealing schooner. It follows Humphrey Van Weyden, a shipwrecked literary critic, who falls under the power of Captain Wolf Larsen, a brutal and intellectually formidable sea captain. The book is worth listening to for its tense atmosphere and its study of strength, survival, and the human will.
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Opening of the book
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
ĵǼǵƒLjǡ Ljż
“ǵƒŧ ŕĵƯƯ Ljż ǵƒŧ ΅ƗƯŠ,” “ǵƒŧ żĵƗǵƒ Ljż ƽŧƿ,”
ŧǵŕ.
POPULAR EDITION.
LONDON
WILLIAM HEINEMANN
1917
First published, November 1904.
New Impression, December 1904, April 1908.
Popular Edition, July 1910; New Impressions, March 1912, September
1912, November 1913, May 1915, May 1916, July 1917.
Copyright, London, William Heinemann, 1904
Contents
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. CHAPTER XVIII. CHAPTER XIX. CHAPTER XX. CHAPTER XXI. CHAPTER XXII. CHAPTER XXIII. CHAPTER XXIV. CHAPTER XXV. CHAPTER XXVI. CHAPTER XXVII. CHAPTER XXVIII. CHAPTER XXIX. CHAPTER XXX. CHAPTER XXXI. CHAPTER XXXII. CHAPTER XXXIII. CHAPTER XXXIV.