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The Sea-Wolf

The Sea-Wolf

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer 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. 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."


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“He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.”

Wolf Larsen, Chapter Six
The Sea-Wolf (1904)

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“My mistake was in ever opening the books.”

Source: The Sea Wolf

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“I was jealous; therefore I loved.”

Source: The Sea Wolf

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“He was not immoral, but merely unmoral.”

Source: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Ten

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“"I only remember one part of the service," he said, "and that is 'And the body shall be cast into the sea.'”

So cast it in."
Source: The Sea-Wolf (1904), Chapter Three

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