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The Sea Wolf

The Sea Wolf

by Jack LONDON (1876 - 1916)

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." (Summary by Wikipedia)


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.