Stories of the Sea

A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of adventure, shipwrecks, storms at sea, creatures from the deep, and 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.

The 18 stories here, as wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself, include:

• “After the Storm” by Ernest Hemingway
• “Cruise” by John Updike
• “The Cruise of The Jolly Roger” by Kurt Vonnegut
• “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane
• “The House of Mapuhi” by Jack London
• “John Marr” by Herman Melville
• “Now Wakes the Sea” by J.G. Ballard
 
This appealing collection joins Everyman’s Library’s small Pocket Classics, perfect for gift giving and pleasure reading.
 
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.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

AcknowledgementsDIANA 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, Stories of the Sea, and Stories from the Kitchen, and of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poems for Children.