The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
“At the mercy of the Sea-Wolf, survival is the only morality.”
After a shipwreck, a refined literary critic is forced into hard labor aboard a seal-hunting schooner run by the intellectual yet predatory Captain Wolf Larsen. Trapped in a floating world of violence and primitive survival, he must confront the terrifying reality that in the middle of the ocean, civilization is a luxury and strength is the only law.
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