01356cam a22002053a 450000100040000000500170000402000170002104000350003805000150007308200150008810000300010324500760013325000230020926000370023230000250026950500060029452008130030052100190111352100180113270920231206122411.0  a076783002500  aMBEcMBEdUKMdOCLCQdDLCbeng00aPS3523.O4604a823.912181 aLondon, Jack,d1876-1916.14aThe sea wolf /cby Jack London ; with an introduction by Lewis Gannett.  aBantam classic ed.  aNew York :bBantam Books,c1960.  a252 pages. ;c18 cm.  aU  aA 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."  a1020 
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