Stories of the Sea

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.

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman’s Pocket Classics Love Stories and Christmas Stories and the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poet anthology Lullabies and Poems for Children.

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

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