The Sea-Wolf
Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. This 1904 maritime classic depicts the clash...
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Humphrey Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a tense shipboard drama. A deranged and abusive sea captain perpetrates a shipboard atmosphere of increasing violence that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation. This 1904 maritime classic depicts the clash of materialistic and idealistic cultures with a mixture of gritty realism and sublime lyricism.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486411088 (0486411087)
ASIN: 486411087
Publish date: December 23rd 1999
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Wolf Larsen was a right old bastard, but I liked the old devil.
bookshelves: fraudio, winter20092010, published-1904, seven-seas, bullies, noir, play-dramatisation, philosophy, serial-killer, classic, adventure Recommended for: BBC listeners Read from February 15 to 19, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** Shipwrecked literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued by d...
Shipwrecked literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued by demonic skipper and seal hunter Wolf Larsen. Stars Jack Klaff.Like many authors who wish to convert their particular breed of philosophical questioning into a novel, it ultimately becomes quite absurd. I love it! Of course it's not as abs...
What woman would fall in love with milquetoast Humphrey Van Weyden, I ask you?
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