This book is the depiction of life on the sea, describing the thrilling experience of a sailor shipwrecked and afloat on a raft on the ocean.

A Message from the Sea was a short story about life on the sea, with all its dangers and twists, by Charles Dickens written in 1860 for the Christmas issue of All the Year Round. This subject relates the thrilling experience of a sailor shipwrecked and afloat on a raft on the ocean.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1872) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period.During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented popularity, and by the twentieth century he was widely seen as a literary genius by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.