Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a perennial favorite of readers young and old, Herman Wouk's masterful World War II drama set aboard a U.S. Navy warship in the Pacific is "a novel of brilliant virtuosity" (Times Literary Supplement). Herman Read more
The year is 1797. Napoleon Buonaparte is racking up impressive wins in the field against the enemies of revolutionary France, while on the seas England is putting up a staunch resistance. Twenty-five-year-old Charles Edgemont is second lieutenant aboard the British Read more
Written by William Hope Hodgson is an effective seafaring horror story of a ship attacked and ultimately dragged down to its doom by supernatural creatures.
The book purports to be the spoken testimony of the sole survivor.
