About the book
A selection of short sea fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Poe, Melville, Conrad, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Kipling, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Malcolm Lowry and others, with an introduction by the editor on why the sea has drawn so many writers to it.
Tony Tanner (1935-1998) was a Cambridge literary scholar and a Fellow of King's College, best known for his work on American literature.
Notes
To come.