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1) Nostromo
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"Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard" is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native...
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1350L
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A young sea captain tests his mettle off the coast of Siam in this nineteenth-century psychological tale from the author of Heart of Darkness. When his sailing ship is anchored in the Gulf of Siam-now Thailand-a first-time sea captain questions his ability to command. Anxious and eager for his crew to like him, he takes the first shift of the night watch. Alone in the dark, he encounters a mysterious man swimming alongside the vessel. The captain...
3) The sea wolf
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
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1020L
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English
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An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentlleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a feindish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal.
4) Lord Jim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1040L
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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character...
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Henry Whalley is a true sailor, earning years of experience as a ship's captain before his retirement. Faced with unexpected financial problems and a desire to help his married daughter earn her place in the world, Whalley is forced to sell his boat and buy his way back into service on a trade vessel. But Whalley is living so close to financial ruin that any small deviation from his course will put him over the edge . . . The End of the Tether is...
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This masterly character study of human transformation, written by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) during the First World War, chronicles a youth's passage into manhood upon becoming the commander of his first ship. In this poignant tale of maturation, Conrad explores the initiation of this transitional occurrence and delivers a portrait of physical and psychic exile; sensory disorientation; and the final crossover toward a new identity. With realism born...
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'It was unnecessary for all to perish, when, by the death of one, it was possible, and even probable, that the rest might be finally preserved.'
Travelling aboard a whaling vessel, a young stowaway is swept up in myriad misadventures - mutiny, shipwreck, cannibalism - narrowly escaping numerous brushes with death. This rousing story of a daring sea voyage also presents its antihero with a host of psychological dilemmas, and offers an important insight...
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Peter Willems is down on his luck. The Dutch clerk has been fired for embezzlement from his job in the Indonesian port city of Makassar, and his scornful wife has abandoned him. Willems' despair lifts after an encounter with Tom Lingard, a sea captain who operates a remote trading post. Lingard hires the drifter to act as his agent, entrusting Willems with knowledge of the secret route across dangerous waters to the post. Once installed in his new...
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Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852) is a novel by American writer Herman Melville. Published the year after Moby-Dick-a critical and commercial failure-Pierre: or, The Ambiguities is a psychological novel in the tradition of Gothic fiction. Melville struggled to find a publisher who would pay him in advance for the book, and its appearance prompted widespread ridicule and condemnation in the press, with some critics claiming that Melville himself had...
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"Five years ago, Cass barely survived a brutal attack that left her family dead. Now a scuba diving instructor in Thailand, she has spent years trying to build a new, anonymous life for herself as one of the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimed the beautiful Thailand destination as their own. The permanents are charming, they're close-knit, and they don't linger on who they were before the island--they're the perfect group for Cass to finally...
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"Axel Heyst aims to drift through life in solitude, believing he can avoid suffering by cutting himself off from humanity's passions and delusions. Then, living on a remote island in the Malay Archipelago, he rescues a young English girl escaping from a man who is infatuated with her"--Back cover.
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Content:
Novels and Novellas:
Heart of Darkness
Lord Jim
Victory: An Island Tale
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
The Shadow Line: A Confession
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale
The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Forecastle
The Duel
Under Western Eyes
Memoirs, Letters and Articles
A Personal Record, or Some Reminiscences
The Mirror of the Sea
Notes On Life And Letters
Autocracy And War
The Crime...
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This unique collection of "The Complete Sea Tales of Joseph Conrad" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. Conrad is regarded as one of the greatest novelists in English, though he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties. He wrote stories and novels, often with a nautical setting, that depict trials of...
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Seeking adventure, Argentine dandy Balboa Brontine charms his way onto an expedition to film a remote Canadian island famed for wild horses and shipwrecks. He persuades Paul the filmmaker to let New Orleans femme fatale Geraldine join their yacht. At sea the two men vie for her affections, Balboa bold and brazen, Paul quietly nursing his attraction. She focuses on extracting the truth from Balboa — Why is he involved? He claims he was raised by...
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Un voyage initiatique qui prend la forme d'un conte philosophique pour mieux fuir l'horreur humaine.
« Vois ! Regarde ! Les images diffusées : ce camion blanc avançant dans la foule et dévorant les corps ; le conducteur relançant sa machine quand elle ralentit, détruisant la vie. Je ne sais pourquoi, j'ai absolument, tout de suite, associé le camion à Moby Dick. »
L'attentat de Nice choque tellement l'homme qui parle qu'il s'embarque avec...
16) Sweet Afton
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Looking at John Callaway's life from a distance, some might say that he's "living the dream." At the helm of a successful development company built by his father years before, business success follows him, and Atlanta society has been good to his family. But in a flash, ominous skies overtake the calm seas of his charmed world and threaten to capsize his life. Long past are the lazy summer days on the shores of Tybee Island, where everything was once...
17) Moral Revenge
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Family. Honor. Devotion. Revenge.When world events, egos, and naval careers scapegoat Vice Admiral Alexis Kochenko, it shakes him and his family to their core.Torn by revenge, patriotism, and honor, the Admiral's son, John Kochenko, commanding officer of one of the Navy's newest nuclear fast-attack submarines,risks everything to lead a select group of crewmembers to do the unthinkable. The voyage of the USS Redfish exposes a corrupt consortium to...
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"For fans of Riley Sager with a classic slasher twist, Always the First to Die follows a former horror movie actress as she returns to the set of her most iconic film, only to find that the strange circumstances begin to resemble the plot of her most famous film. After her husband's death, Lexi has refused to return to the Pinecrest Estate on the Florida Keys, too many hard memories on that strip of land. Memories of meeting her husband on the set...
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There are all kinds of secrets lost at sea…
Ella loves the nomadic lifestyle of working on a luxury superyacht. She can leave her past behind and start fresh with people who understand her. Over the years she's found a new family to return to every summer – the crew of Ananke.
Now she's returning to work on Ananke following a tragedy the previous summer where one of the deckhands died in an accident. Newcomer Ashley was confident, capable...
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Fécamp est mis sous cloche et coupé du reste du monde par une brume inquiétante...
Une brume inquiétante envahit la cte d'albâtre. Fécamp et ses environs se retrouvent brutalement coupés du monde extérieur, comme mis sous cloche durant des jours, des semaines et des mois. La municipalité ne sait plus comment endiguer l'exode et la violence d'une population affamée. L'armée intervient mais ne peut empêcher les révoltes, les pillages et...
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