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In much simpler surroundings, the third class passengers also engage in music, dancing, winning, and whirlwind romances. Meanwhile, Beesley and Goodwin toy with the possibility of embarking on an illicit affair in an empty cabin but decide not to. Goodwin comments that shipboard romances, like shipboard friendships, are meant to end with the ...
Children of the Night was the second volume of poetry published by the American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. While the volume was weakly received, President Theodore Roosevelt 's son Kermit introduced the work to his father who, knowing his straits, secured Robinson a job at the NY Customs Office.
"Ship" and its derivatives in this context have since come to be in widespread usage. "Shipping" refers to the phenomenon; a "ship" is the concept of a fictional couple; to "ship" a couple means to have an affinity for it in one way or another; a "shipper" or a "fangirl/boy" is somebody significantly involved with such an affinity; and a "shipping war" is when two ships contradict each other ...
"Shipping"—the depiction of a romantic or sexual relationship between fictional characters—has long been a staple within fanfiction. The lack of censorship emerging from spaces such as AO3 allowed for the portrayal of disturbing or taboo dynamics within fan works, including incest, abuse, rape, and pedophilia.
The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle [a] (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea), first published in the United States as The Children of the Sea, is an 1897 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. The central character is an Afro-Caribbean man who is ill at sea while aboard the trading ship Narcissus heading ...
Romance of the Sea (see note) [notes 1] Owner: George B. Upton: Builder: Donald McKay of East Boston, MA: Launched: October 23, 1853: Fate: Unknown; sailed from Hong Kong December 31, 1862 and was not heard from again: General characteristics; Class and type: Extreme clipper: Tons burthen: 1782 tons: Length: 240 feet (73.2 m) Beam: 36.5 feet ...
Children of the Night, by Nash the Slash, or the title song, 1981; The Children of the Night, by Tribulation, 2015; Children of the Night, by 52nd Street, 1985; Children of the Night, an EP by Dream Evil, 2003; Children of the Night, an EP by Energy, 2011; 13 Stairway - The Children of the Night, by Balzac, 1998
An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.