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 Bradburys The Fog Horn summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths; John Updikes vacationing lovers retrace the route of Homers 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 Everymans Librarys 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.