Found 425 results for "Sailors in fiction"
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
Rime of the ancient mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...
Le Comte de Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
by William Shakespeare
THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...
The Drawing of the Three
by Stephen King
The gunslinger came awake from a confused dream which seemed to consist of a single image: that of the Sailor in the Tar...
The Sea-Wolf
by Jack London
I SCARCELY know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseth's credit.
Nostromo
by Joseph Conrad
IN THE time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco-the luxuriant beauty of the orange garden...
Billy Budd
by Herman Melville
In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable seaport ...
Two years before the mast
by Richard Henry Dana
The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim, on her voyage from Boston, round Ca...
Elric of Melniboné
by Michael Moorcock
It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white.
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Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.