Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Read by Kristin LeMoine
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariner'…
Treasure Island (version 5)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island is an adventure novel narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Traditionally considered a coming-of-age s…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…
The Moorland Cottage
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
"Maggie Brown is torn between her mother who constantly tells her to live for her selfish brother (to whom she gives all her love) to h…
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 3
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Edgar Allan Poe
This, the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of …
Sea Stories
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Various
Most of us have passed through a period of life during which we have ardently longed to be, if not actually a rover, a buccaneer, or a pirat…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…
The Ebb-Tide
Read by Mark F. Smith
Robert Louis Stevenson
Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox. Their desperate venture inspires …
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first ha…
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…
The Frozen Deep
Read by Diana Majlinger
Wilkie Collins
The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and…
Mr. Midshipman Easy
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Frederick Marryat
One of the first novel-length pieces of nautical fiction, MR. MIDSHIPMAN EASY (1836) is a funny and easygoing account of the adventures of J…
Benito Cereno
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Herman Melville
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…
Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship 'Pirate'
Read by Mark F. Smith
Thornton Jenkins Hains
This is the tale of a perilous voyage aboard a clipper ship told by the second mate. He looks up to Trunnell, the first mate, who somehow ma…
Saved at Sea
Read by Rachel
Mrs. O. F. Walton
Alick was born in a lighthouse during a storm, and raised in the same lighthouse. He used to wish something would change, and one day someth…
The Pearl of Orr's Island
Read by Bridget Gaige
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Go on a journey to the coast of Maine and immerse yourself in the picturesque community on Orr’s Island. See the raindrops glistening on the…
An Outcast Of The Islands
Read by Tom Weiss
Joseph Conrad
An Outcast of the Islands is the second novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1896, inspired by Conrad's experience as mate of a steamer, the…
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
Read by Allyson Hester
Logan Marshall
This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those…
White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of-War
Read by James K. White
Herman Melville
This is a tale based on Melville's experiences aboard the USS United States from 1843 to 1844. It comments on the harsh and brutal realities…