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Stories of the sea / edited by Diana Secker Tesdell.

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Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2010.

Everyman's pocket classics.

9780307592651 (alk. paper)

0307592650 (alk. paper)

405 p. ; 19 cm.

The fog horn / Ray Bradbury -- A matter of fact / Rudyard Kipling -- A descent into the maelström / Edgar Allan Poe -- The merry men / Robert Louis Stevenson -- After the storm / Ernest Hemingway -- The treasure-ship / Saki -- Through the tunnel / Doris Lessing -- Cruise / John Updike -- The cruise of the Jolly Roger / Kurt Vonnegut -- One for the islands / Patricia Highsmith -- The open boat / Stephen Crane -- The house of Mapuhi / Jack London -- Youth / Joseph Conrad -- Titanic victim speaks through waterbed / Robert Olen Butler -- The young man with the carnation / Isak Dinesen -- John Marr / Herman Melville -- Now wakes the sea / J. G. Ballard -- Sail shining in white / Mark Helprin.

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.

Tesdell, Diana Secker.

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