Stories of the Sea - (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics) by Diana Secker Tesdell (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>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 <i>Titanic </i>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 <i>Odyssey </i>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Diana Secker Tesdell</b> is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies <i>Christmas Stories, </i> <i>Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories</i>, <i>New York Stories</i>, <i>Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood</i>, <i>Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea</i>, and <i>Stories from the Kitchen, </i>and of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet <i>Lullabies and Poems for Children.</i>
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