Rescued from a shipwreck by the brutal, brilliant sealing captain Wolf Larsen, the sheltered critic Humphrey Van Weyden is forced to toughen himself aboard the Ghost and ultimately fight for survival and love against the Nietzschean tyrant.
Books mentioned in The Sea-Wolf (5)
First Principles by Herbert Spencer: “I understood quite a good deal of _First Principles_, but his _Biology_ took the wind out of my sails, and his _Psychology_ left me butting around in the doldrums for many a day.”
The Principles of Biology by Herbert Spencer: “I understood quite a good deal of _First Principles_, but his _Biology_ took the wind out of my sails, and his _Psychology_ left me butting around in the doldrums for many a day.”
The Principles of Psychology by Herbert Spencer: “I understood quite a good deal of _First Principles_, but his _Biology_ took the wind out of my sails, and his _Psychology_ left me butting around in the doldrums for many a day.”
In a Balcony by Robert Browning: “It was open at "In a Balcony," and I noticed, here and there, passages underlined in pencil.”
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch: “Astronomy and physics were represented, and I remarked Bulfinch's _Age of Fable_, Shaw's _History of English and American Literature_, and Johnson's _Natural History_ in two large volumes.”