Name: Sea Stories
SKU: 59415672
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Author: Daniel Defoe
ISBN: 9781483799674

Type

Physical Book

Author

Herman Melville

Daniel Defoe

Publisher

Bottom of the Hill Publishing

Language

English

Pages

278

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

Weight

0.38 kg.

ISBN13

9781483799674

Synopsis "Sea Stories"

The title of this book, SEA STORIES, tells the entire tale. Enclosed within these 276 pages you will find excerpts of some of the most famous nautical stories of all time. Authors whose names you've known your whole life are here: Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, J. Fenimore Cooper, Victor Hugo, Herman Melville and W. Clark Russell to name just a few. Stories such as The Mutiny of the Bounty, Moby Dick, The Swiss Family Robinson, Two Years Before the Mast, David Copperfield, Treasure Island, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe and many, many more. None of these stories are complete. The editor has selected the portion of the stories that he found most exciting, or that he felt justified their inclusion in this book. After reading many of these excerpts, you may even wish to once again, read the entire book they represent. The reaction of the 21st Century population almost certainly will be; "Wow! These old time sea-faring men were real MEN!" SEA STORIES isn't a book for everyone, but if you love tales of action, adventure and intrigue at sea, this is the book for you.

Herman Melville

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Herman Melville (New York, August 1, 1819-New York, September 28, 1891)1 was an American writer, novelist, poet, and essayist from the American Renaissance period. Among his most famous novels are Typee (1846), based on his experiences in Polynesia, and the novel Moby Dick (1851),1 considered his masterpiece and a classic of world literature

Between 1853 and 1855, he published a series of stories in Putnam Magazine, most of which were collected in The Piazza Tales, including two of Melville's most important narratives: the story Bartleby, the Scrivener and the novella Benito Cereno. Also featured is the story The Encantadas, consisting of ten sketches about the Galapagos Islands linked by a single narrator. In 1857, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, also known as The Confidence-Man, was the last prose fiction work he published. Seeking financial stability, he abandoned writing, accepting a position as a customs inspector

In his later years, in which he also had to endure the death of two of his brothers as well as the death of two of his sons, Clarence, from tuberculosis, and Malcolm from a possible suicide, as well as the death of another of his sons at thirty-five years old, Stanwix Melville, he dedicated himself to writing poetry. Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, from 1866, is a poetic reflection on the Civil War and Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, a fictional epic poem, published in 1876. The novel Billy Budd, which he left unfinished and was posthumously published in London in 1924, is considered one of the most significant works of American literature.

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Daniel Defoe

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English writer and journalist, Daniel Defoe is mainly known for his novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), though he also stood out for his role in the development of the press and for his political and social essays

Defoe left his studies to become a discreet businessman, whose activities were not entirely profitable, even receiving prison time for his debts

From 1695, after several years of exile due to his political ideology, he starts a new business dedicated to tiles and bricks which begins to work, providing his family—he was married and had six children—with greater economic stability

However, his political activism leads him to publish several essays or pamphlets that cost him days of imprisonment and the pillory. After returning to jail, Defoe begins working from a magazine supporting political factions of the government, participating in the English secret services

In 1719 he publishes his great novel, Robinson Crusoe, which allows him to launch into a literary career marked by successes such as The Adventures of Captain Singleton, A Journal of the Plague Year, or Moll Flanders. His popularity grew and his influence on subsequent generations of writers by enhancing the novelistic genre is notable

Despite all his success and his connections with the government, Defoe never achieved stable economic solvency for long. His death in 1731 occurred while fleeing from new creditors

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