The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

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Zusammenfassung

The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life.

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The Sea-Wolf by Jack London

The Sea-Wolf belongs in the honorific tradition of American sea fiction where the voyage motif became a means of exploring the meaning of life, as in Richard Henry Dana's Two Years Before the Mast (1840), Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), and Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851). The dominant subject is an intellectual conflict between a ship-wrecked literary figure, Humphrey Van Weyden, and the brutal captain of a seal-hunting schooner, Wolf Larsen, who rescues Van Weyden and puts him to menial work on the schooner. The central chapters focus on the gory details of seal-hunting, and the final section shows how far Van Weyden has learned seamanship as he restores The Ghost to sailing health and returns to port with the only woman passenger, another shipwrecked figure, to plight their troth.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9781840225808
ISBN 10 1840225807
Titel The Sea-Wolf
Autor Jack London
Serie Wordsworth Classics
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2015-05-15
Seitenanzahl 256
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