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    Dickens on Railways: A Great Novelist's Travels by Train

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    ISBN: 9781916045354
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    AuthorDickens, Charles
    Pub Date26/10/2020
    BindingHardback
    Pages224
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    A collection of Dickens' many writings on railways, from ghost stories to Dombey and Son, travel pieces to letters.

    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...