Novels set on ships

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book centers on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the

1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson

novel by Jules Verne

1937 novel by Agatha Christie

1878 novel by Jules Verne

1866 novel by Jules Verne

1897 novel by Jules Verne

1838 novel by Edgar Allan Poe

1871 novel by Jules Verne

1994 novel by Umberto Eco

novel by Jules Verne

novella by Herman Melville

1898 novella by Morgan Robertson

novella by Jules Verne

1897 novel by Joseph Conrad

series of maritime novels by Patrick O'Brian

1902 novel by Jack London

1886 novel by Pierre Loti

novel by Joseph Conrad

novel by Joseph Conrad

1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling

novel by Herman Wouk

1998 novel by Boris Akunin

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White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War is the fifth book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in London in 1850. The book is based on the author's fourteen months' service in the United States Navy, aboard the frigate USS Neversink (actually ).

1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat

Katherine Anne Porter novel

novel by Paul Gallico

1924 juvenile fiction novel by Dutch author Johan Fabricius

novel by Frederick Marryat