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The initial failure of Under the Sea Wind may have been due to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America entering World War II the same year it was published. [9] [10] The book became popular after the publication of the second book in the Sea Trilogy, The Sea Around Us, and it was this second text that established her as a natural history author ...
Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award, [2] [3] recognition as a gifted writer and financial security. Its success prompted the republication of her first book, Under the Sea Wind (1941), in 1952, which was followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955 — both were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy ...
The Sea Around Us is a prize-winning and best-selling book by the American marine biologist Rachel Carson, first published as a whole by Oxford University Press in 1951. It reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings.
This is a collection of science fiction novels, comic books, films, television series and video games that take place either partially or primarily underwater. They prominently feature maritime and underwater environments , or other underwater aspects from the nautical fiction genre, as in Jules Verne 's classic 1870 novel Twenty Thousand ...
After a stint with the U.S. Army during World War I, he was educated at Stetson University [2] and Columbia University. [1] At various times in his life, Mr. Wilder was a soda jerk , a ship fitter, a theater usher, a shipping clerk, a newspaper copyboy , boss of a criminal gang, "a publicity agent" ( Claudette Colbert was among his clients), a ...
The morality of men's action during war is explored throughout the book and it's contrasted against acceptable behaviour post-war. Deception plays a large role in how the characters interact with each other and the influence their lies have on their future (e.g. Fermín's explanation of his past to the Sempere's, Daniel's avoidance of his marital problems).
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, trans. by F. P. Walter in 1991, made available by Project Gutenberg. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea at Project Gutenberg, obsolete translation by Lewis Mercier, 1872; Vingt Mille Lieues Sous Les Mers 1871 French edition at the digital library of the National Library of France
The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It is the fifth and final novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea . It won the annual World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and was runner up for the Locus Award , Best Fantasy Novel, among other nominations.