The Sea-Wolf

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London.

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.
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John Griffith London (1876 - 1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist.

A pioneer in the world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first writers to become a worldwide celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing.

He was also an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction.
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