One of Jack London’s brightest works, included in the golden fund of world fiction, repeatedly adapted both in the West and in our country.
Times change, decades pass — but even now, more than a century after the novel’s publication, the story of a deadly confrontation still not only captivates but fascinates the reader: the tale of a young writer Humphrey who miraculously survives a shipwreck, and of his unwilling rescuer and merciless enemy — the fearless and cruel captain of a whaling ship, Wolf Larsen, a half-pirate obsessed with a superhuman complex…