Martin Eden
by Jack London | 
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London | 
Adventure
by Jack London | 
White Fang
by Jack London | 
Hearts of Three
by Jack London | 
Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling | 
The Custom of the Country
by Edith Wharton | 
You Can't Go Home Again
by Thomas Wolfe | 
The Winter of Our Discontent
by John Steinbeck | 
Tom Sawyer Abroad
by Mark Twain | 
Billy Budd, Sailor
by Herman Melville | 
St. Ives
by Robert Louis Stevenson | 
The Deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper | 
Summer
by Edith Wharton | 
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
by Stephen Crane | 
A Lost Lady
by Willa Cather | 
The Buccaneers
by Edith Wharton | 
The Short Novels of John Steinbeck
by John Steinbeck | 
The Garden of Eden
by Ernest Hemingway | 
The Prairie
by James Fenimore Cooper |
The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the sea by Larsen's seal-hunting vessel, the Ghost. This ship's evil captain, Wolf Larsen - The Sea-Wolf - is a 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. Pressed into service as a cabin boy by the ruthless captain, Van Weyden becomes an unwilling participant in a brutal shipboard drama. Larsen's increasingly violent abuse of the crew fuels a mounting tension that ultimately boils into mutiny, shipwreck, and a desperate confrontation.