Nautical & Marine Fiction
A Marriage at Sea
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William Clark Russell
Herbert Barclay is desperately in love with Grace Bellassys, but a number of factors stand in the way of their happiness, the biggest of whi…
Atlantis
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Gerhart Hauptmann
Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career h…
Godfrey Morgan: a Californian Mystery
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Jules Verne
This Verne adventure is indeed a mystery and also a satire on the Crusoe genre. Our characters are larger than life, as well they should be …
The Word of an Engineer
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered f…
The Ships that Won't Go Down
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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …
The Merry Anne
Read by Betsie Bush
Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.
This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…
Toilers of the Sea (Version 2)
Read by John Greenman
Victor Hugo
The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Victor Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island communit…
Biltmore Oswald
Read by Nigel Boydell
J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully …
Mardi Vol. 1
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Herman Melville
"Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the …
The Beach of Dreams
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H. De Vere Stacpoole
Two sailors, Harbutt and Raft, discuss their plight as workers under the thumb of a wealthy owner. During a windstorm, Raft and his fellow h…
The Island of Appledore
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Cornelia Meigs
Any one who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. Such a person can tell you that it…