Classic tales of adventures, shipwrecks, sea monsters, haunted ships and more.

Read by Richard Mitchley, Ian Holm & Eric Meyers (Unabridged: 7hrs 48mins)

Featuring stories by Guy de Maupassant, Victor Hugo, Arthur Conan Doyle, H G Wells, Stephen Crane, W W Jacobs & more.

From placid and glimmering to foaming and raging the sea is a perfect mirror of the human condition.  Our authors often place their characters on or about this vast mass that can be either friend or foe.  This liquid character has many dimensions, many ways of speaking. 

In this compilation

01 - Short Stories Set on the Sea - An Introduction

02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle

03 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells

04 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo

05 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

06 - A Saga of the Seas by Kenneth Grahame

07 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant

08 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope

09 - South West and by West Three-Quarters West by Frederick Marryat

10 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

11 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs

12 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester

13 - The Sea Voyage by Charles Lamb

14 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope