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

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Dickens on Railways: A Great Novelist's Travels by Train - Dickens, Charles, and Williams, Tony (Editor)
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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 ...

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Dickens on Railways: A Great Novelist's Travels by Train 2020, Safe Haven Books, London

ISBN-13: 9781916045354

Hardcover