The Sea Wolf - Background and Resources

[Silver]

Please post any background information about the book and or author or other additional material you think will be useful to our reading of The Sea Wolf. Please post spoilers where needed.

[Silver]

There is a lot of nautical jargon in this book.

These are some diagrams which might prove useful and helpful while reading

Sail Rigging Diagram

http://www.promare.co.uk/whiting/imag...

Schooner Diagram

http://redlea.net/compendium/shipyard...

This is some information about Seal Hunting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_hun...

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca...

[Lily]

Here is a 1904 review of Sea Wolf that appeared in The Guardian:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/1904...

In my judgement, no spoilers, but a perhaps a bit of foreshadowing.

[Lily]

The following is from an Amazon review of The Sea Wolf:

" The Sea Wolf is a good book, but not a great one. Though the front half shows inklings of a masterpiece along the lines of The Call of the Wild, The Iron Heel, or Martin Eden, the disappointing ending puts it in a class with middling works like White Fang."

I don't know how well those comments do or do not jibe with other critics, but will be interested if others encounter different views.

[Ronald]

I read this title years ago. It is memorible for the psychological verve of the encounters with Wolf in the first half, only to conclude with a very wek meandering that IMO could not have suited the story worse. Same rap as Huck Finn, but Wolf is not a great novel.

[Silver]

This is an interesting article about the Sea Wolf. There may be some spoilers within.

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/Refer...