From placid and glimmering to foaming and raging the sea is a perfect mirror of the human condition. Our authors often place their characters on or about this vast mass that can be either friend or foe. This liquid character has many dimensions, many ways of speaking. Our classic authors including the likes of Victor Hugo, William Hope Hodgson, Anthony Trollope, W W Jacobs, Guy de Maupassant show us many facets of this ever-changing persona in these telling stories.