The call of the sea /by Jan de Hartog.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Atheneum, (c)1966.Description: x, 465 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
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  • PR6015 .C355 1966
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Contents:
The distant shore -- A sailor's life.
Scope and content: Each of these three books is illiuminated by this gift of story; each of the books is about the sea; each is filled with men and ships and the wonderous things they do to each other. And each has something special of its own.Review: The Lost Sea, wrote Tom Hopkinson in the London Observer, "reads like one of those gifts of the gods which come very rarely in a writer's life, when he sets down every word as under dictation, changing almost nothing afterwards, and the result is a lasting astonishment and delight." It is a book about childhood and the beginning of life at sea, a story set in a Holland that no longer exists, a story about people --Review: The Distant Shore is a rich and dramatic novel about the adventures of youth and yong manhood in war and peace--if there is ever peace between man and sea. It is really two stories, one of which is called "Stella" and was made into the movie called "The Key", a story of World War II and the mysteries of courage and love. The other called "Thalassa", and although it takes place in peace time, it is really about the battle between a man and the deep. The two stories together make up what James Hilton called a "work of vivid and often roguish imagination".Review: A Sailor's Life is neither a novel nor a collection of stories, but in a senseit is both --
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The lost sea -- The distant shore -- A sailor's life.

Each of these three books is illiuminated by this gift of story; each of the books is about the sea; each is filled with men and ships and the wonderous things they do to each other. And each has something special of its own.

The Lost Sea, wrote Tom Hopkinson in the London Observer, "reads like one of those gifts of the gods which come very rarely in a writer's life, when he sets down every word as under dictation, changing almost nothing afterwards, and the result is a lasting astonishment and delight." It is a book about childhood and the beginning of life at sea, a story set in a Holland that no longer exists, a story about people --

The Distant Shore is a rich and dramatic novel about the adventures of youth and yong manhood in war and peace--if there is ever peace between man and sea. It is really two stories, one of which is called "Stella" and was made into the movie called "The Key", a story of World War II and the mysteries of courage and love. The other called "Thalassa", and although it takes place in peace time, it is really about the battle between a man and the deep. The two stories together make up what James Hilton called a "work of vivid and often roguish imagination".

A Sailor's Life is neither a novel nor a collection of stories, but in a senseit is both --

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