The Sea Wolf by Jack London Pocket Books, 3rd Printing, 1946 The Sea Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American writer Jack London. The book's protagonist, Humphrey Van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication. According to London himself, his intention in writing The Sea-Wolf was "an attack on (Nietzsche's) super-man philosophy." Indeed, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer are mentioned in the second sentence of the novel as the preferred reading of the friend Humphrey Van Weyden visited before his shipwreck. Condition Notes: 3rd printing, 1946. Pages in unmarked condition. Ownership inscription on front page from 1951. Cover has some to gloss coating, minor peeling. Cover has some wear to edges and corners. Small chip on front cover near top edge.