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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London, featuring a literary critic who is rescued by a ruthless sea captain. The novel explores themes of survival, brutality, love, and philosophy, and is influenced by Nietzsche, Darwin, and Kipling.
- Jack London
- 1904
A classic adventure drama starring Edward G. Robinson as the brutal captain of a seal-hunting ship and Ida Lupino as a female prisoner. The film follows their journey and conflicts with a crew of diverse characters, including a writer, a convict, and a doctor.
The Sea Wolf: Directed by Michael Curtiz. With Edward G. Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox. After being fished out of the sea by a sailing ship, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore, and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
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- Adventure, Drama
- Michael Curtiz
- 1941-03-21
The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 novel by Jack London that blends naturalism and adventure. It tells the story of Humphrey Van Weyden, a refined castaway who joins the crew of the Ghost, a schooner run by the brutal Wolf Larsen.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth’s credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed through the winter months and read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer to rest his brain.
- I seemed swinging in a mighty rhythm through orbit vastness. Sparkling points of light spluttered and shot past me. They were stars, I knew, and flaring comets, that peopled my flight among the suns.
- Wolf Larsen ceased swearing as suddenly as he had begun. He relighted his cigar and glanced around. His eyes chanced upon the cook. “Well, Cooky?”
- What happened to me next on the sealing-schooner Ghost, as I strove to fit into my new environment, are matters of humiliation and pain. The cook, who was called “the doctor” by the crew, “Tommy” by the hunters, and “Cooky” by Wolf Larsen, was a changed person.
The Sea Wolf, Jack London The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him
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A literary critic is rescued by a ruthless seal hunter and becomes his cabin boy. He faces danger, violence, and romance on the high seas and an isolated island.
