The Sea-Wolf

Overview

Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Sea-Wolf includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by the Publisher.Shipwrecked during a weekend pleasure cruise, gentleman scholar Humphrey Van Weyden thinks his mysterious rescuers have saved his life.he's wrong.Van Weyden's trapped abroad the Ghost--a seal-hunting schooner crewed by the most desperate, brutal outcasts of the Pacific. Ghost's evil captain, Wolf Larsen--The Sea-Wolf--is murderous tyrant who uses his superhuman strength to torture and destroy, his brilliant mind to invent sick games, and his relentless will to control his mutinous crew.Each new day bring Van Weyden pain he'd never imagined. Escape is impossible. On deck flooded with the blood of the seal slaughter, he must battle a savage genius not just for his life--but for the last tattered shreds of his own soul.

Details

Publisher

Macmillan

Published

1993-09-15

Pages

320

Language

EN

Categories

Fiction / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Classics, Fiction / Literary, Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure, Fiction / Sea Stories, Fiction / Places / Polar Regions

ISBN-13

9780812522761