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. 01 - Short Stories Set on the Sea - An Introduction02 - The Striped Chest by Arthur Conan Doyle03 - The Sea Raiders by H G Wells04 - A Fight with a Cannon by Victor Hugo05 - The Open Boat by Stephen Crane06 - A Saga of the Seas by Kenneth Grahame07 - Le Horla by Guy De Maupassant08 - Malachi's Cove by Anthony Trollope09 - South West and by West Three-Quarters West by Frederick Marryat 10 - The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale11 - Captain Rogers by W W Jacobs12 - Devereux's Last Smoke by Izola Forrester13 - The Sea Voyage by Charles Lamb14 - The Voice in the Night by William Hope