Reading path
Saltwater
The longest tradition in literature is the one we have no place in. The sea was older than language when we crawled out of her, and the writing has not caught up. Three thousand years of trying: Odysseus on the long way home, Ahab at the rail, Crusoe at the broken edge, Bernard counting waves at the close. Man cannot really live at sea. He goes anyway.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The OdysseyHomer, 750 BCE
- 2. The TempestWilliam Shakespeare, 1611
- 3. Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe, 1719
- 4. Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift, 1726
- 5. The Adventures Of Roderick RandomTobias Smollett, 1748
- 6. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798
- 7. The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas, 1844
- 8. Moby-DickHerman Melville, 1851
- 9. Dover BeachMatthew Arnold, 1867
- 10. TyphoonJoseph Conrad, 1902
- 11. Lord JimJoseph Conrad, 1900
- 12. The Sea-WolfJack London, 1904
- 13. NostromoJoseph Conrad, 1904
- 14. IthakaC.P. Cavafy, 1911
- 15. Death in VeniceThomas Mann, 1912
- 16. To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf, 1927
- 17. Sailing to ByzantiumW.B. Yeats, 1928
- 18. The WavesVirginia Woolf, 1931
- 19. The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway, 1952
- 20. Lord of the FliesWilliam Golding, 1954
- 21. Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys, 1966
- 22. The Sea The SeaIris Murdoch, 1978
- 23. OmerosDerek Walcott, 1990
- 24. The Rings of SaturnW.G. Sebald, 1995
- 25. Captain Hornblower R.N.C.S. Forester, 1937
- 26. The LusiadLuís Vaz Camões, 1572
- 27. Treasure IslandRobert Louis Stevenson, 1883
- 28. The Adventures and Misadventures of MaqrollAlvaro Mutis, 1993
- 29. The Idea of Order at Key WestWallace Stevens, 1935
- 30. A High Wind in JamaicaRichard Hughes, 1929
- 31. Billy BuddHerman Melville, 1924
- 32. The Mysterious IslandJules Verne, 1874
- 33. The Toilers of the SeaVictor Hugo, 1866
- 34. Crossing the BarAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1889
- 35. UlyssesAlfred, Lord Tennyson, 1842
- 36. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon PymEdgar Allan Poe, 1838