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• The Narrow Corner (c1932), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Dialstone Lane, by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• Dialstone Lane (London: G. Newnes, 1904), by W. W. Jacobs, illust. by Will Owen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• A Master of Craft (c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• A Master of Craft (New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie, c1900), by W. W. Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• 'Twixt Land and Sea, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• Billy Budd, by Herman Melville (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Secret Sharer, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (in French; 1868), by Jules Verne
  • Gutenberg text
  • unabridged amateur English translation by Don Sample: PDF files with commentary at forgottenfutures.com
• A Voyage Round the World (translation of Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant; 3 volumes; London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1876-), by Jules Verne, illust. by Edouard Riou
  • Volume 1 (South America): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 2 (Australia): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume 3 (New Zealand): multiple formats at archive.org
• Men Against the Sea (c1933), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, illust. by N. C. Wyeth (text and illustrated HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Auringon Poika: Seikkailuja Etelämerellä (in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1919), by Jack London (Gutenberg text)
• Merisusi (The Sea-Wolf in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• Persuasion, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Persuasion (based on the 1906 Stoneleigh edition, with added illustrations), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson, illust. by C. E. Brock and Hugh Thomson (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• A Son of the Sun, by Jack London (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Timar's Two Worlds (New York: M. J. Ivers and Co., 1894), by Mór Jókai, trans. by Agnes Hegan Kennard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Dick Sand: or, A Captain at Fifteen (New York: A. L. Burt, ca.1878), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg HTML)
• Dick Sands, the Boy Captain, by Jules Verne, trans. by Ellen E. Frewer (Gutenberg HTML)
• The Battle and the Breeze: or, The Fights and Fancies of a British Tar, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• The Pinafore Picture Book: The Story of H. M. S. Pinafore (with some sheet music; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1908), by W. S. Gilbert, contrib. by Arthur Sullivan, illust. by Alice B. Woodward (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Story of Nelson, and Other Stories, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• The Ice Queen (New York: Harper and Bros., c1884), by Ernest Ingersoll (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Bobtail: or, The Wreck of the Penobscot (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875), by Oliver Optic (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Home is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), by Herbert Hartley and Clint Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Log of an Ancient Mariner: Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1878), by Edgar Wakeman, ed. by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• The Log of an Ancient Mariner: Being the Life and Adventures of Captain Edgar Wakeman (San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1878), by Edgar Wakeman, ed. by Minnie Wakeman-Curtis (page images at Mystic Seaport)

• Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad (Gutenberg text and audio reading)

• Stories of Ships and the Sea (Little Blue Book #1169; Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius Co., c1922), by Jack London, ed. by E. Haldeman-Julius (Gutenberg text)

• Merisusi (The Sea-Wolf in Finnish; Helsinki: Otava, 1915), by Jack London, trans. by Helmi Krohn (Gutenberg text)
• The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania

• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Hendricks House, 1954), by Herman Melville, ed. by Elizabeth Sophia Foster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Grove Press, 1949), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (New York: Dix, Edwards and Co., 1857), by Herman Melville
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text and page images

• The New Centurion: A Tale Of Automatic War (London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1895), by James Eastwick
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1950), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (Boston: St. Botolph Society, 1923), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (London et al.: Constable and Co., 1922), by Herman Melville (page images at HathiTrust)
• White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War (New York: United States Book Company, c1892), by Herman Melville (Gutenberg text)

• The Misplaced Battleship (as published in Astounding, April 1960), by Harry Harrison, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Ronald Morton: or, The Fire-Ships, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Sunken Submarine (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1912), by Émile Augustin Cyprien Driant, trans. by Frederick Lawton, illust. by Lyle T. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1993 Lippincott omnibus edition; slightly abridged), by Jules Verne, trans. by Lewis Page Mercier
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, trans. by William Butcher (PDF with commentary at ibiblio.org)
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, by Jules Verne, trans. by Frederick Paul Walter
  • illustrated HTML in Israel
  • Gutenberg text

• Moby Dick, by Herman Melville (multiple editions)
• The Cruise of the "Cachalot": Round the World After Sperm Whales, by Frank Thomas Bullen (Gutenberg text)
• Emoji Dick, by Herman Melville, ed. by Fred Benenson (multiple formats at archive.org)

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