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The Sea Wolf

Jack London (1876 - 1916)

The Sea-Wolf is a novel written in 1904 by American author Jack London. An immediate bestseller, the first printing of forty thousand copies was sold out before publication. Of it, Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing—and it is among the greatest of things—is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen... the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime." (Summary by Wikipedia)

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction, Nautical & Marine Fiction

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	01: I scarcely know where to begin	Tom Crawford	00:19:39
Play 02	02: I seemed swinging in a a mighty	Tom Crawford	00:19:08
Play 03	03: Wolf Larsen ceased swearing	Tom Crawford	00:26:19
Play 04	04: What happened to me next	Tom Crawford	00:16:10
Play 05	05: But my first night in the hunters' steerage	Tom Crawford	00:18:48
Play 06	06: By the following morning the storm	Tom Crawford	00:33:17
Play 07	07: At last, after three days of variable wind	Tom Crawford	00:08:23
Play 08	08: Sometimes I think Wolf Larsen mad	Tom Crawford	00:17:42
Play 09	09: Three days of rest, three blessed days	Tom Crawford	00:21:26
Play 10	10: My intimacy with Wolf Larsen increases	Tom Crawford	00:16:27
Play 11	11: The Ghost has attained the southernmost point	Tom Crawford	00:15:03
Play 12	12: The last twenty-four hours have witnessed	Tom Crawford	00:24:17
Play 13	13: For three days I did my own work, and Thomas	Tom Crawford	00:10:06
Play 14	14: It has dawned upon me that I have never	Tom Crawford	00:18:42
Play 15	15: There was a deal of cursing and groaning	Tom Crawford	00:13:48
Play 16	16: I cannot say that the position of mate	Tom Crawford	00:17:25
Play 17	17: Strange to say, in spite of the general foreboding,	Tom Crawford	00:32:54
Play 18	18: The next day, while the storm was blowing itself out	Tom Crawford	00:16:53
Play 19	19: I came on deck to find the Ghost heading up close	Tom Crawford	00:15:15
Play 20	20: The remainder of the day passed uneventfully.	Tom Crawford	00:18:23
Play 21	21: The chagrin Wolf Larsen felt from being ignored	Tom Crawford	00:11:05
Play 22	22: I knew what it was as she came toward me.	Tom Crawford	00:08:29
Play 23	23: Brave winds, blowing fair, swiftly drove the Ghost	Tom Crawford	00:12:22
Play 24	24: Among the most vivid memories of my life	Tom Crawford	00:15:57
Play 25	25: "You've been on deck, Mr. Van Weyden,"	Tom Crawford	00:30:35
Play 26	26: Wolf Larsen took the distribution of the whiskey	Tom Crawford	00:30:55
Play 27	27: Day broke, grey and chill.	Tom Crawford	00:18:12
Play 28	28: There is no need of going into	Tom Crawford	00:16:36
Play 29	29: "Fool!" I cried aloud in my vexation.	Tom Crawford	00:13:09
Play 30	30: No wonder we called it Endeavour Island.	Tom Crawford	00:17:37
Play 31	31: "It will smell," I said, "but it will keep in the heat	Tom Crawford	00:06:33
Play 32	32: I awoke, oppressed by a mysterious sensation.	Tom Crawford	00:19:22
Play 33	33: We waited all day for Wolf Larsen to come ashore.	Tom Crawford	00:14:20
Play 34	34: "It's too bad the Ghost has lost her masts.	Tom Crawford	00:12:08
Play 35	35: Next day, the mast-steps clear, and everything in readiness,	Tom Crawford	00:15:03
Play 36	36: For two days Maud and I ranged the sea	Tom Crawford	00:22:06
Play 37	37: At once we moved aboard the Ghost,	Tom Crawford	00:20:43
Play 38	38: "I think my left side is going," Wolf Larsen wrote,	Tom Crawford	00:07:38
Play 39	39: The day came for our departure.	Tom Crawford	00:16:34

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