The Sea-Wolf: A Romance Of “The Free Traders”

This novel, published originally in 1834 and re-published here in digital form, tells the story—half romance, half tragedy—of a “free trader” (part smuggler, part pirate) who loves a woman to the point of obsession, though she is betrothed to the very man who, as commander of an English revenue cutter, is charged with patrolling the coast to stop men such as himself.

What a hopeless mess, eh?  The story takes place half on land, half at sea, and half in despair.

The revenue cutter is named the Greyhound, the free trader’s ship the Sea-Wolf—hence the title of the book.

Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing.  We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison.  Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book.  While remaining faithful to a writer’s original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes.  If the printer became distracted after placing an ‘a’ at the end of a line and then placed another ‘a’ at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too?  Not us.  That’s why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.