The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful." The personal character of the novel's antagonist "Wolf Larsen" was attributed to a real sailor London had known, Captain Alex MacLean. the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing-and it is among the greatest of things-is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. The Sea Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London.
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