{"product_id":"9781841596051","title":"Stories of the Sea","description":"Author: Authors, Various\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781841596051\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Apr 2010\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn anthology of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, and of voyages testing human endurance to its limits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClassic adventure stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London mix with marvellously imaginative tales by Isak Dinesen, Patricia Highsmith and J. G. Ballard. Robert Olen Butler explores the memories of a \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e victim who has become part of the sea that swallowed him; Ray Bradbury's 'The Fog Horn' summons something primeval and lonely from the ocean depths; John Updike's lovers retrace the route of Homer's \u003ci\u003eOdyssey \u003c\/i\u003eon a cruise ship. From Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic 'A Descent into the Maelstrom' to Ernest Hemingway's chilling 'After the Storm', the stories here are as wide-ranging and entrancing as the sea itself.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48165322260638,"sku":"UBD-9781841596051","price":34.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781841596051.jpg?v=1787134269","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781841596051","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}