The Wreck of the Titan - The Novel That Foretold the Sinking of the Titanic

Informationen zum Autor Morgan Robertson (1861-1915) was an American writer of short stories and novels and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. He is best known for his 1898 novella Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan. Klappentext This eerily prescient novella from 1898 - 14 years before the Titanic disaster - tells of an "unsinkable" luxury liner's maiden voyage across the Atlantic and her disastrous collision with an iceberg. Zusammenfassung Proclaimed as unsinkable, the world's biggest and most opulent ocean liner heads across the Atlantic on her maiden voyage — but a collision with an iceberg and inadequate lifeboats doom 3,000 souls to a watery grave. This grimly captivating novella was first published in 1898, 14 years before the Titanic disaster, making it an eerily prescient work that will fascinate both history buffs and lovers of adventure stories.

Product details

• Authors: Morgan Robertson
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9780486837321
• ISBN: 978-0-486-83732-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 5 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historischer Roman, Abenteuerromane, FICTION / Historical, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Alternative History, Fiction - General