The Sea Wolf Audiobook By Jack London cover art

The Sea Wolf

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

The Sea Wolf

By: Jack London
Narrated by: Brian Emerson
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $17.16

Buy for $17.16

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

He is a man capable of abandoning two sailors in an open boat, yet he is an avid and thoughtful reader of the moral philosophers. He is Wolf Larsen, captain of the seal-hunting Ghost and the unforgettable protagonist of one of the world's great sea novels. Tormented by his own convictions, Larsen is an enigma both fascinating and repellent to his reluctant crewman, Humphrey Van Weyden.

Throughout their long and perilous voyage together, the captain's ruthless belief in the survival of the fittest is pitted against Van Weyden's "civilization", a contest between two opposing views of life that demonstrates Jack London's gift for expressing complex ideas with exciting action. The Sea Wolf is a superb example of the genius of a writer who was, in the words of Maxwell Geismar, "the poet of the savage Darwinian struggle".

Public Domain (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Action & Adventure Classics Genre Fiction Psychological Sea Adventures

People who viewed this also viewed...

The Sea Wolf Audiobook By Jack London cover art
The Sea Wolf By: Jack London
Exciting Adventure • Great Characters • Philosophical Themes • Compelling Storyline • Vivid Descriptions
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
So different a book for Mr. London! An amazing story of courage and humanity, with a love story to boot!

A Different Tack for London

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Jack London wrote many books that I remember from childhood. Too bad that I grew up and the book isn't as great as I remember. The performance didn't elevate the book. Overall the story is still good, but the characters came off as immature and petulant from the narration.

Classic, Unfortunately Better When I was 12

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great reading, interesting to observe the philosophic and moral themes from London’s perspective, but the characters are awfully flat, perhaps so flat that it adds to their charm?

Flat characters, great reading

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I loved it, perhaps more than it deserved, but it resonated with me. At once a book of meditative philosophy, a romantic adventure, and a castaway story tied all together.

I enjoyedd the whole Humphrey Van Weyden v. Wolf Larson set up, even if it was a tad contrived. The struggle between Humphrey and Wolf allows London the room to explore everything from God, to the Nature of Man, to Love. The Humphrey and Maud climax at the end was probably the books weakest piece, but Wolf Larson is one of the great characters in all of Fiction, IMHO.

Wolf Larson is one of Fiction's great characters

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It’s Jack London so there is nothing to not like. Riches to Raggs. A man capable of nothing without even knowing it, subjected to the cruel and brutal truths of the world, transforms him into a man capable of anything.

London is king.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Jack London is a terrific writer! I really enjoyed the story of The Sea Wolf, as well as, the character development. The characters became so real I felt as if I was on the schooner, the Ghost, with them. The sences were artfully described---very well done! I also enjoyed the narrator, who changed his voice just enough with the different characters to distinguish them apart. It was very easy to listen to.

I would rate this book one of my personal top 10 best.

The Sea Wolf

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
great nautical book. well written and well print presented. great quality for such an old recording.

great book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The incessant dipictchen of cruelty and violence by Jack London. Wolf was a bad human and hard to accept. Literally no redeamability.

The ability of London to use the written 9word to display and make clear the remasting of the GHOST BY the man and woman.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A bit of a slow start but once "into it" i didn't want to turn it off.

Love Jack London!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I have to laugh at other reviews wishing the characters were more to their own liking. This is the story told in the voice of one man. It’s a wild and glorious yarn of its time. Enjoy it like a painting from another era, a lost era. It’s wonderful!

Classic Work of Art

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews