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The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates

The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Pirates and Blue Water is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1925. The volume is divided in two parts: Tales of Pirates with stories of pirates, and Tales of Blue Water with stories of sea. The same content has been published previously in 1922 in Tales of Pirates and Blue Water by John Mu..

The Patagonia

The Patagonia

by Henry James

The Patagonia" by Henry James is a 1891 story about a ship, The Patagonia, that sailed from Boston to Liverpool.Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English l..

The Secret Sharer

The Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad

The Secret Sharer is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909. The Secret Sharer takes place on a sailing ship in the Gulf of Siam (now the Gulf of Thailand), at the start of a voyage with cargo for Britain. The date is probably in the 1880s, when Conrad was at sea himself. In common with many of Conrad's sto..

The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" -  A Tale Of The Forecastle

The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle

by Joseph Conrad

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus: A Tale of the Forecastle is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major, or middle, period; others have placed it as the best work of his early, or first, period.  The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian..

The Shadow Line -  A Confession

The Shadow Line - A Confession

by Joseph Conrad

The Shadow-Line is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's Metropolitan Magazine (September—October) in the English Review (September 1916-March 1917) and published in book form in 1917 in the UK (March) and Amer..

Typhoon

Typhoon

by Joseph Conrad

Typhoon is a novella by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and serialized in Pall Mall Magazine in January–March 1902. Its first book publication was in New York by Putnam in 1902; it was also published in Britain in Typhoon and Other Stories by Heinemann in 1903. Typhoon is a classic sea yarn, possibly based upon Conrad's actual experience of seaman's l..

The Mirror of the Sea

The Mirror of the Sea

by Joseph Conrad

First published in 1906, The Mirror of the Sea was the first of Joseph Conrad's two autobiographical memoirs. Discussing it, he called the book "a very intimate revelation. I have attempted here to lay bare with the unreserve of a last hour's confession the terms of my relation with the sea, which beginning mysteriously, like any great passion the ..

The End of the Tether

The End of the Tether

by Joseph Conrad

The End of the Tether is a novel by Joseph Conrad about a ship captain and the relationship between his daughter. Excerpts from the book"For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed..