How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson

How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson

Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship's owner, J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel Lord Jim, Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt--questions that revolve around Ismay's loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture--a ship called "The Last Word in Luxury" and "The Unsinkable"--was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever.

Frances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions, The Courtesan's Vengeance, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, which received the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, How to Survive the Titanic, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, and Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018, she was awarded a fellowship by the Cullman Center of the New York Public Library. Her daughter and she live in London.

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ISBN 13	9780062094551
ISBN 10	0062094556
Title	How to Survive the Titanic
Author	Frances Wilson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	2020-12-04
Number of pages	384
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