He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life.

Author: Jack London

Publisher: e-artnow

ISBN: 9788074844324

Category: Fiction

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This carefully crafted ebook: “The Sea Wolf (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. He is best remembered as the author of Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in the Klondike Gold Rush, as well as the short stories "To Build a Fire", "An Odyssey of the North", and "Love of Life. He also wrote of the South Pacific in such stories as "The Pearls of Parlay" and "The Heathen", and of the San Francisco Bay area in The Sea Wolf. The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure about a literary critic and survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation...

The master storyteller nowhere demonstrates this theme more vividly than in this classic American tale of peril and adventure, good and evil.

Author: Jack London

Publisher: National Geographic Books

ISBN: 9780553212259

Category: Fiction

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The Sea Wolf is Jack London’s powerful and gripping saga of Humphrey Van Weyden, captured by a seal-hunting ship and now an unwilling sailor under its dreaded captain, Wolf Larsen. The men who sailed with Larsen were treacherous outcasts, but the captain himself was the legendary Sea Wolf–a violent brute of a man. Jack London was a worshipper of the strong and virtuous hero, and a firm believer in the inevitable triumph of good. The master storyteller nowhere demonstrates this theme more vividly than in this classic American tale of peril and adventure, good and evil.

About the period he was writing this section of The Sea - Wolf Jack London wrote to Charmian Kittredge : " I always held , always I say , that there were rare loves , such as the Browning love , once in a generation of folks .

Author: Jack London

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 0192838253

Category: Arctic Regions

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Humphrey Van Weyden, rescued by the crew of the Ghost, becomes an unwilling sailor under the command of Wolf Larsen.

The storm broke that night, which is to say that it diminished as slowly as it had arisen. After breakfast next morning, when I had hoisted Wolf Larsen's body on deck ready for burial, it was still blowing heavily and a large sea was ...

Author: London J.

Publisher: Рипол Классик

ISBN: 9785521074891

Category: Fiction

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Jack London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist and social activist. Pioneering the genre of magazine fiction and prototyping science fi ction, he became one of the fi rst writers, who gained worldwide fame and a large fortune. “The Sea-Wolf” is a psychological adventure novel that tells the story of Humphrey van Weyden, a literary critic and a survivor of an ocean collision. After the rescue, he falls under the infl uence of a powerful and amoral sea captain Wolf Larsen. So a soft, domesticated man is forced to become tough and self-reliant through exposure to cruelty and brutality.

I had always conceived a burial at sea to be a very solemn and awe-inspiring event, but I was quickly disillusioned, by this burial at any rate. One of the hunters, a little dark-eyed man whom his mates called “Smoke,” was telling ...

Author: Jack London

Publisher: BookRix

ISBN: 9783730990285

Category: Fiction

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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime... The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful."

Would he have left me there if he'd seen me to be female when he looked through his spyglass at the two of us, waving, my flute crying for help? ... When I looked beyond Magruder now I could see the Sea Wolf close up.

Author: Eve Bunting

Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

ISBN: 9781410310422

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 208

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At the end of The Pirate Captain's Daughter, Catherine and cabin boy William are marooned on Pox Island by the murderous crew of the pirate ship Reprisal. The young lovers see no hope of escape. In Voyage of the Sea Wolf, the continuing saga of Catherine's sea adventures, she and William are rescured from their island prison by the Sea Wolf, a pirate ship pursuing the Reprisal. Catherine worries that these new pirates will send her back to the island once they discover she's a girl. But then, she meets the captain of the Sea Wolf. A Woman! Surely, Catherine thinks, the bloodshed and brutality she and William experienced aboard the Reprisal can't happen again, especially under the leadership of a female captian. But just as things seem to be going their way, the captain takes a liking to William. Catherine is forbidden to see him. If Catherine and William want to stay together, they must find a way to now escape from the Sea Wolf.

Ilearned, also, thatWolf Larsen was anxiousto make the most of the storm, which was driving him to the south–west into that portion of the sea where he expectedto pick up with the north–east trades. Itwas before this steady windthat he ...

Author: Jack London

Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

ISBN:

Category: Foreign Language Study

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EXERCISE 16 STYLE: LITERARY ANALYSIS – SELECTED PASSAGE 4 Read the following passage the first time through for meaning. ... The morning of the fourth day found the wind diminished to a gentle whisper, the sea dying down, and the sun ...

Author: Mary Jane McKinney

Publisher: Grammardog LLC

ISBN: 9781608571802

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

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Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for this novel. All sentences are from the novel. Figurative language includes: "A steamboat emerged trailing fog wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan." "He accepted destiny, marched hand in hand with it." "Life . . . was a cipher in the arithmetic of commerce." Sensory imagery includes: "the mournful tolling of a bell," "sour-smelling garments," "two rows of tobacco-discolored teeth," "fresh-baked bread," "her hair was brushing my face."

I had always conceived a burial at sea to be a very solemn and awe-inspiring event, but I was quickly ... minute or so the group of hunters gave mouth to a laughter that sounded to me like a wolfchorus or the barking of hell-hounds.

Author: Jack London

Publisher: BookRix

ISBN: 9783736814301

Category: Fiction

Page: 422

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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. When summer came on, he elected to sweat out a hot and dusty existence in the city and to toil incessantly. Had it not been my custom to run up to see him every Saturday afternoon and to stop over till Monday morning, this particular January Monday morning would not have found me afloat on San Francisco Bay.

“You've read this Sea Wolf stuff—” “You weren't the Sea Wolf,” Whiskers broke in with involuntary positiveness. “No, sir,” was the snarling answer. “The Sea Wolf's dead, isn't he? And I'm still alive, aren't I?” “Of course, ...

Author: Jack London

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

ISBN:

Category: Fiction

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