The Sea-Wolf: illustrated - first published in 1904 (1st. Page Classics)

"The earth is as full of brutality as the sea is full of motion. And some men are made sick by the one, and some by the other. ..." What happens, when a snooty gentleman gets shipwrecked and finds himself on board of a seal-hunting schooner ... and forced to become a crew member instead of getting back on land at the next stop ...? Exactly that happens to Humphrey van Weyden as he gets confronted with Captain Wolf Larsen, a tyrann with his own philosophy of the value of life and society. Van Weyden is forced to find a way to survive in the small world of a ship full of brutality and inhumanity ... "The Sea-Wolf" by Jack London, first published in 1904, is a thrilling seafarer adventure as well as a social criticism of the injustice in modern societies.