Synopses & Reviews
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters.
Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Jack London mix with marvelously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith, and J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a Titanic victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury’s “The Fog Horn” summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths; John Updike’s vacationing lovers retrace the route of Homer’s Odyssey on a cruise ship. From Edgar Allan Poe’s dramatic “A Descent into the Maelstrom” to Ernest Hemingway’s chilling “After the Storm” to Mark Helprin’s heartbreaking “Sail Shining in White,” the stories here are as wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself.
Synopsis
Tesdell gathers the best maritime fiction from the last 200 years in this collection of shipwrecks and storms at sea, creatures from the deep, voyages that test human limits on the wild, and limitless waters.
Synopsis
Unique and delightful, these literary story anthologies are a treasury of short fiction by great writers old and new in an elegant and charming format in enduring hardcover editions with elegant cloth sewn bindings, gold stamped covers, and silk ribbon markers.
Titles included:
Christmas Stories, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Dog Stories, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Ghost Stories, edited by Peter Washington
Love Stories, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Stories of the Sea, edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
About the Author
Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies
Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, and
Stories of the Sea, and of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthology
Lullabies and Poems for Children. Table of Contents
DANGERS OF THE DEEP
Ray Bradbury
The Fog Horn
Rudyard Kipling
A Matter of Fact
Edgar Allan Poe
A Descent into the Maelström
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Merry Men
Ernest Hemingway
After the Storm
Saki
The Treasure-Ship
VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY
Doris Lessing
Through the Tunnel
John Updike
Cruise
Kurt Vonnegut
The Cruise of The Jolly Roger
Patricia Highsmith
One for the Islands
SURVIVAL AT SEA
Stephen Crane
The Open Boat
Jack London
The House of Mapuhi
Joseph Conrad
Youth
Robert Olen Butler
Titanic Victim Speaks through Waterbed
THE CALL OF THE SEA
Isak Dinesen
The Young Man with the Carnation
Herman Melville
John Marr
J.G. Ballard
Now Wakes the Sea
Mark Helprin
Sail Shining in White
Acknowledgements