A sea story is a work of fiction or non-fiction set largely at sea.
The enclosed setting of life aboard a ship allows an author to portray a social world in miniature, with characters cut off from the outside world and forced to interact in cramped and stressful conditions.
The form has been popular from Homer's Odyssey onwards.
Themes can include:
Notable exponents of the sea story include:
Notable novellas include:
In the twentieth century, sea...
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A sea story is a work of fiction or non-fiction set largely at sea.
The enclosed setting of life aboard a ship allows an author to portray a social world in miniature, with characters cut off from the outside world and forced to interact in cramped and stressful conditions.
The form has been popular from Homer's Odyssey onwards.
Themes can include:
Notable exponents of the sea story include:
Notable novellas include:
In the twentieth century, sea stories were popular subjects for the pulp magazines. Adventure and Blue Book often ran sea stories by writers such as J. Allan Dunn and H. Bedford-Jones as part of their selection of fiction. More specialized periodicals include:
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