Download or read book Railway Accident and other stories written by Edward Upward and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legendary figure among the 'Auden generation' of young writers in the 1930s, Edward Upward continuted writing into his late nineties. This selection of his best short stories spans a literary career of almost eight decades, and was published to celebrate his centenary in 2003. Beginning in 1928 with the fantastical world of Mortmere in The Railway Accident, the stories continue through the era of political engagement in the Thirties to the reflective and poignant studies of old age that have underpinned his revival in the past decade. Together they represent a lifetime of achievement in modern literature.
Download or read book The Railway Accident and Other Stories written by Edward Upward and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Train Wreck written by George Bibel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails
Download or read book Dear Austen written by Nina Bawden and published by Virago. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accidents happen to other people. But on On May 10th 2002, Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the 'other people'. It was to be a lovely outing to Cambridge for a friend's birthday party. Nina Bawden and her husband Austen Kark boarded the 12:45 from Kings Cross and settled down with their books and papers. A few minutes later the train derailed. Seven people were killed and 76 badly hurt. Nina Bawden was gravely injured and Austen was killed instantly. In this powerful and poignant letter to her husband, Nina Bawden uses her considerable writing skills to try and make sense of it all. She explains how she - now in her late 70s - found herself the outspoken spokesperson for the survivors of the crash, interviewed here and abroad and even one of the characters portrayed in David Hare's The Permanent Way. Although liability has finally been admitted, as of October 2004, there has been no resolution to this tragedy, nor a public enquiry into how it happened.
Download or read book Train Wreck and Other Stories written by Noel Osualdini and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of short, scary stories by Melbourne dark fiction writer Noel Osualdini. This includes titles previously published in the ambitious anthologies, 'The Refuge Collection, Heaven to Some...' and 'The Refuge Collection... Hell to Others!' as well as stories printed in the acclaimed Things in the Well series of themed anthologies, and elsewehere. Also includes several new, as yet unpublished tales to make your toes curl.
Download or read book The Quintinshill Conspiracy written by Jack Richards and published by Wharncliffe. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the railway's Titanic. A horrific crash involving five trains in which 230 died and 246 were injured, it remains the worst disaster in the long history of Britain's rail network.The location was the isolated signal box at Quintinshill, on the Anglo-Scottish border near Gretna; the date, 22 May 1915. Amongst the dead and injured were women and children but most of the casualties were Scottish soldiers on their way to fight in the Gallipoli campaign. Territorials setting off for war on a distant battlefield were to die, not in battle, but on home soil victims, it was said, of serious incompetence and a shoddy regard for procedure in the signal box, resulting in two signalmen being sent to prison. Startling new evidence reveals that the failures which led to the disaster were far more complex and wide-reaching than signalling negligence. Using previously undisclosed documents, the authors have been able to access official records from the time and have uncovered ahighly shocking and controversial truth behind what actually happened at Quintinshill and the extraordinary attempts to hide the truth.As featured in Dumfries & Galloway Life magazine, January 2014.
Download or read book The Coming Day and Other Stories written by Edward Upward and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes stories that features protagonists who are threatened by a malevolent state and socio-political violence, but sustained by visions of a better future and the restorative of sexual love.
Download or read book Little Herr Friedmann And Other Stories written by Thomas Mann and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of work taken from his highly acclaimed collection Stories of a Lifetime by one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. In elegant prose, Mann explores such eternal themes as: individuals forced into the extremes of their existence, isolation and the artist's tentative position in the harsh world, the realization of one's true nature.
Download or read book Railway and Other Accidents written by Allan McLane Hamilton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railway and Other Accidents: With Relation to Injury and Disease of the Nervous System, a Book for Court Use, With Fifteen Plates, Two Superimposed Charts and Thirty-Six Illustrations It would be a difficult matter to estimate the amount of damages paid annually throughout the world by rail roads to claimants who present themselves with real or assumed injuries. Sums of thirty to forty thousand dol lars have been many times awarded by sympathetic juries, and one serious accident will often wreck a corporation. The trolley or street lines fare worse than the steam roads, for the reason that on the former it is impossible to safe guard passengers who often persist in getting off the car before it stops or in the wrong way, and because, to a cer tain degree, it is obliged to pick up or set down passen gers at places, most convenient for the latter. A steam road, on the contrary, stops only at fixed stations, its cars are enclosed, its lines are fenced off, and it has the right of way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Common Reader And Other Stories written by Virginia Woolf and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book The Express Messenger and Other Stories of the Rail written by Cy Warman and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men and Women Writers of the 1930s written by Janet Montefiore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and Women Writers of the 1930s is a searching critique of the issues of memory and gender during this dynamic decade. Montefiore asks two principle questions; what part does memory play in the political literature of and about 1930s Britain? And what were the roles of women, both as writers and as signifying objects in constructing that literature? Montefiore's topical analysis of 1930s mass unemployment, fascist uprise and 'appeasement' is shockingly relevant in society today. Issues of class, anti-fascist historical novels, post war memoirs of 'Auden generation' writers and neglected women poets are discussed at length. Writers include: * George Orwell * Virginia Woolf * W.H. Auden * Storm Jameson * Jean Rhys * Rebecca West
Download or read book Edward Upward and Left Wing Literary Culture in Britain written by Benjamin Kohlmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the first book-length consideration of Edward Upward (1903-2009), one of the major British left-wing writers, this collection positions his life and works in the changing artistic, social and political contexts of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Upward’s fiction and non-fiction, from the 1920s onwards, illustrate the thematic and formal richness of left-wing writing during the twentieth-century age of extremes. At the same time, Upward’s work shows the inherent tensions of a life committed at once to writing and to politics. The full range of Upward’s work and a wealth of unpublished materials are examined, including his early fantastic stories of the 1920s, his Marxist fiction of the 1930s, the extraordinary semi-autobiographical trilogy The Spiral Ascent and his formally and thematically innovative later stories. The essays collected here reevaluate Upward’s central place in twentieth-century British literary culture and assess his legacy for the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Literature written by Peter Widdowson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory volume provides an overview of the history of Literature as a cultural concept, and reflects on the contemporary nature, place and function of what the literary might mean for us today. Literature: * offers a concise history of the canonic concept of 'literature' from its earliest origins * illustrates the kinds of theoretical issues which are currently invoked by the term 'literary' * provides a definition of the 'literary' for the twenty-first century With Literature Peter Widdowson provides a thought-provoking essay on the contemporary relevance of the 'literary' for students.
Download or read book Graham Swift written by Peter Widdowson and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Swift is among the foremost contemporary British writers, having published seven highly acclaimed novels which are widely read by students and general public alike. Waterland has become a modern classic, and Last Orders won the Booker prize for fiction in 2006. This study covers all Swift's novels to The Light of Day: it offers a close reading of each of the novels, exploring the innovative formal strategies and identifying such recurrent themes as the presence of the past in the present, the blurring of distinctions between 'history' and 'story', fact and fiction, and the possibilities of redemption in a contemporary social and emotional wasteland. For the most part set in an urban, middle-class, claustrophobic and loveless present, and focused on usually fraught relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children, these recognisably postmodern novels are seen here as symptomatic of contemporary Britain: a world where, in the shadow of the nuclear holocaust, we approach 'the End o
Download or read book Traumatic Pasts written by Mark S. Micale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book trace the origins of ongoing heated debates regarding trauma.
Download or read book Internet Freedom and Political Space written by Olesya Tkacheva and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is a new battleground between governments that censor online content and those who advocate Internet freedom. This report examines the implications of Internet freedom for state-society relations in nondemocratic regimes.
