A psychological masterpiece in a new translation Few figures in world literature remain in one's memory as Captain Wolf Larsen, Jack London's demonic "Sea Wolf". Ruthless and unscrupulous, he hunts across the ocean with his seal hunter "Ghost" and leads a cruel regiment. It is from this ship of all places that the subtle Humphrey van Weyden is rescued after a ferry accident. Now a new life begins for the literary critic, for with him, too, the captain, to whom only the law of the strong man applies, plays his terrible game of domination and power. Van Weyden despises Larsen's capitalist view of the world - and yet he cannot escape the fascination of this man. The new translation of Lutz-W. Wolff does justice for the first time to the full magnitude of Jack London's most powerful and mature novel in German. The "Sea Wolf" is not only a gripping