The Sea-Wolf

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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London that explores brutality, individualism, and moral conflict through the clash between an intellectual castaway and a ruthless sea captain.

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The Sea-Wolf canonical 3
The Sea Wolf (1920 film) 2
The Sea Wolf 1

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instanceOf adventure novel
novel
psychological novel
adaptedAs film
radio drama
television film
author Jack London
captainOfShip Wolf Larsen
containsCharacterType intellectual castaway
ruthless sea captain
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
exploresTheme brutality
individualism
intellectual versus physical strength
moral conflict
power and authority
survival
firstBookPublicationYear 1904
firstPublicationForm serial
firstPublishedIn The Century Magazine
genre adventure fiction
psychological fiction
sea story
hasISBN 978-0-14-018744-1
hasLiterarySignificance classic of American sea fiction
influencedBy philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
literaryMovement American naturalism
mainCharacter Humphrey Van Weyden
Maud Brewster
Wolf Larsen
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
narrator Humphrey Van Weyden
notableFilmAdaptationDirector Michael Curtiz
notableFilmAdaptationStar Edward G. Robinson
Ida Lupino
John Garfield
notableFilmAdaptationYear 1941
originalLanguage English
pageCount about 330
partOfAuthorBibliography works of Jack London
protagonistOccupation literary critic
publicationYear 1904
publisher The Macmillan Company
surface form: Macmillan
setting Ghost (sealing schooner)
Pacific Ocean
shipName Ghost
timePeriodOfSetting late 19th century

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Jack London notableWork The Sea-Wolf
John Griffith Chaney notableWork The Sea-Wolf
George Melford notableWork The Sea-Wolf
this entity surface form: The Sea Wolf (1920 film)
George Melford directed The Sea-Wolf
this entity surface form: The Sea Wolf (1920 film)
John notableWork The Sea-Wolf
subject surface form: John Griffith Chaney
Alexander Knox appearedIn The Sea-Wolf
this entity surface form: The Sea Wolf