Dickens on Railways by Charles Dickens
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...
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).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781916045354 |
| ISBN 10 | 1916045359 |
| Title | Dickens on Railways |
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Safe Haven Books |
| Year published | 2020-10-26 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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