Railway Accident and other stories
Title | Railway Accident and other stories PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Upward |
Publisher | eBook Partnership |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2014-07-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1907587314 |
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.
The Railway Accident, and Other Stories
Title | The Railway Accident, and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Upward |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Machine-shop practice |
ISBN | 9780140034172 |
Railway accident
Title | Railway accident PDF eBook |
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Pages | 5 |
Release | 1973 |
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Train Wreck
Title | Train Wreck PDF eBook |
Author | George Bibel |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2012-10-07 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1421405903 |
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
Train Wreck and Other Stories
Title | Train Wreck and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Noel Osualdini |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2019-01-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781794324817 |
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.
Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain
Title | Edward Upward and Left-Wing Literary Culture in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Kohlmann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2016-04-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317145658 |
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.
Little Herr Friedmann And Other Stories
Title | Little Herr Friedmann And Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Mann |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2017-11-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1473559375 |
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.