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Filson Young

Titanic

This was one of the first books to appear after the sinking of the Titanic, published just 37 days after the disaster. Despite the haste, it remains one of the most well-written and stylish of the early works. Its author, Filson Young, was a respected journalist who had already used his columns in the London Saturday Review and the Pall Mall Gazette to call for better safety at sea, and for all ships to have properly-manned radios. Having sailed the Atlantic himself, and knowing several of the passengers on board the doomed liner, his book combines an imaginative telling of the first few days on board, with a powerful account of the sinking based on early survivor interviews. In 1932 the BBC asked Filson to dramatise the book for radio, but a public outcry forced them to reconsider: even after twenty years, his recreation of the sinking was still too painful for many of their audience.
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  • Sanabil Tariqhas quoted7 years ago
    will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.
    His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
    One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
    They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
    Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.
    Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot or caldron.
    His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
    The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
    He maketh the deep to boil like a pot; he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
    He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
    Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
    He beholdeth all high things; he is a king over all the children of pride.
    Job, xli.
  • Samaya Habibovahas quoted9 years ago
    One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
  • Samaya Habibovahas quoted9 years ago
    I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion.

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