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Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

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Excerpt: Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad.

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Excerpt: Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad.

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