The London, Jack 1876-1916 creator text New York Bantam Books 1960 Bantam classic ed. monographic 252 pages. ; 18 cm. A 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." U 1020 Lexile U Raz-Plus by Jack London ; with an introduction by Lewis Gannett. PS3523.O46 823.91 076783002500 MBE 20231206122411.0 709 eng