The Sea-Wolf (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack London
- First Published: 1904
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure, Sea story
- Subjects: Twentieth century, Escapes, Brothers, Death or dying, Revenge, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Cruelty, Sea or seafaring life, Shipwrecks, Hunting or hunters, Pacific Ocean, Mutiny
- Locales: Islands, San Francisco, CA, Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea
The Work
The Sea-Wolf, one of Jack London’s best-known novels, is based in large part on his 1893 voyage aboard the Sophia Sutherland (or Sophie). Like the Ghost of the novel, the Sophie sailed to the far northern Pacific to hunt fur seals. London came away with the raw material for a novel. A decade later, the experience bore fruit in one of the most important works of the American seagoing tradition.
The sea-wolf of the novel’s title is Wolf Larsen, captain of a sealing schooner that rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden...
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