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Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments. The settings of nautical fiction vary greatly, including merchant ships, liners, naval ships, fishing vessels, life boats, etc., along with sea ports and fishing villages. When describing nautical fiction, scholars most frequently refer to novels, novellas, and short stories, sometimes under the name of sea novels or sea stories. These works are sometimes adapted for the theatre, film and television.

The development of nautical fiction follows with the development of the English language novel and while the tradition is mainly British and North American, there are also significant works from literatures in Japan, France, Scandinavia,

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Other notable works

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Novels

Notable exponents of the sea novel not discussed above.

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Novellas

Notable novellas include:

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Short stories

  • Stephen Crane (1871–1900): "Open Boat" (1898)
  • Konstantin Mikhailovich Staniukovich (1843–1903): Maximka; Sea Stories (Translated from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs (Moscow, 1969?) )
  • Konstantin Mikhailovich Staniukovich, Running to the Shrouds: Nineteenth-Century Sea Stories, translated from the Russian by Neil Parsons. (London ; Boston: Forest Books, 1986).
  • Liam O'Flaherty, "The Conger Eel"
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Magazines

In the twentieth century, sea stories were popular subjects for the pulp magazines. Adventure, Blue Book, Best Sea Stories from Bluebook, introduced by Donald Kennicott. New York: The McBride Company, 1954.</ref> often ran sea stories by writers such as J. Allan Dunn and H. Bedford-Jones as part of their selection of fiction. Other works that included sea stories:

  • Argosy, an American pulp magazine from 1882 through 1978.
  • Boys Own Paper, a British story paper aimed at young and teenage boys, published from 1879 to 1967.
  • The Hotspur, a British boys' paper published by D. C. Thomson & Co. From 1933 to 1959,

More specialized magazines include:

  • The Ocean, one of the first specialized pulp magazines (March 1907 to January 1908)
  • Sea Stories, a Street & Smith pulp (February 1922 to June 1930)
  • Sea Novel Magazine, a Frank A. Munsey pulp (two issues: November 1940 and January 1941)
  • Sea Story Annual and Sea Story Anthology (1940s Street & Smith large-size reprint pulps)
  • Tales of the Sea, digest (Spring 1953)
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