Dickens on Railways
A Great Novelist's Travels by Train
In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society. So he wrote about it - to a remarkable extent. He wrote a classic ghost story, 'The Signalman'; in Dombey and Son about what is now the West Coast Main Line being carved through north London in great ravines. Les mer
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the great age of railway building, Charles Dickens could not but be aware of their transformative impact on society. So he wrote about it - to a remarkable extent. He wrote a classic ghost story, 'The Signalman'; in Dombey and Son about what is now the West Coast Main Line being carved through north London in great ravines. He wrote satirical pieces about railway catering - even back then; about the wonder of express train travel to the Channel ports; travel pieces about exploring America by train - and about being personally involved in the notorious Staplehurst train crash in Kent. Now, in the year of Dickens' 150th anniversary, Tony Williams, a distinguished Dickens scholar, collects all these railway writings into a handsome little volume ideal for a long train journey...
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Safe Haven Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- ISBN
- 9781916045354
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Om forfatteren
Charles Dickens is one of Britain's greatest novelists, as well as a peerless social historian of his time. Tony Wiliams is an adviser to the Charles Dickens Museum in London, associate editor of The Dickensian, and co-author of Dickens' Victorian London (2012).