- Sea Wolf, The
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London, Jack
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The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, 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."
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- Chapters
- 01: I scarcely know where to begin
- 02: I seemed swinging in a a mighty
- 03: Wolf Larsen ceased swearing
- 04: What happened to me next
- 05: But my first night in the hunters' steerage
- 06: By the following morning the storm
- 07: At last, after three days of variable wind
- 08: Sometimes I think Wolf Larsen mad
- 09: Three days of rest, three blessed days
- 10: My intimacy with Wolf Larsen increases
- 11: The Ghost has attained the southernmost point
- 12: The last twenty-four hours have witnessed
- 13: For three days I did my own work, and Thomas
- 14: It has dawned upon me that I have never
- 15: There was a deal of cursing and groaning
- 16: I cannot say that the position of mate
- 17: Strange to say, in spite of the general foreboding,
- 18: The next day, while the storm was blowing itself out
- 19: I came on deck to find the Ghost heading up close
- 20: The remainder of the day passed uneventfully.
- 21: The chagrin Wolf Larsen felt from being ignored
- 22: I knew what it was as she came toward me.
- 23: Brave winds, blowing fair, swiftly drove the Ghost
- 24: Among the most vivid memories of my life
- 25: "You've been on deck, Mr. Van Weyden,"
- 26: Wolf Larsen took the distribution of the whiskey
- 27: Day broke, grey and chill.
- 28: There is no need of going into
- 29: "Fool!" I cried aloud in my vexation.
- 30: No wonder we called it Endeavour Island.
- 31: "It will smell," I said, "but it will keep in the heat
- 32: I awoke, oppressed by a mysterious sensation.
- 33: We waited all day for Wolf Larsen to come ashore.
- 34: "It's too bad the Ghost has lost her masts.
- 35: Next day, the mast-steps clear, and everything in readiness,
- 36: For two days Maud and I ranged the sea
- 37: At once we moved aboard the Ghost,
- 38: "I think my left side is going," Wolf Larsen wrote,
- 39: The day came for our departure.
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