One of Jack London's most striking works, a treasure trove of world fiction, has been filmed numerous times both in the West and in our country.
Times change, decades pass—but even now, more than a century after the novel's publication, readers are not simply captivated, but captivated by the story of the deadly confrontation between the young writer Humphrey, who miraculously survived a shipwreck, and his unwitting savior and merciless enemy—the fearless and cruel captain of a whaling ship, Wolf Larsen, a half-pirate possessed by a superman complex…