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The Sea

Best Sea BooksTony Tanner's Top 12 Sea Books



Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe (1719)

James Fenimore Cooper

The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea (1824)

Herman Melville

Moby Dick (1851)

Joseph Conrad

The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’ (1897) and Lord Jim (1900)

Jack London

The Sea-Wolf (1904)

Herman Wouk

The Caine Mutiny (1951)

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

Katherine Anne Porter

Ship of Fools (1962)

Patrick O'Brian

Master and Commander (1970)

William Golding

Rites of Passage (1980)

Tony Tanner (ed.)

The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (1995)

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Literature Reference: American Literature, English Literature, Classics & Modern FictionAuthors on FictionThe sea: Tony Tanner