Morgan Robertson,Sam Leith

The Wreck of the Titan

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Once seen as a prediction of the sinking of the Titanic, The Wreck of the Titan was written fourteen years before that ill-fated event of 1912. Now, on the centenary anniversary of the sinking, the striking similarities between the fate of the Titan and Titanic can be examined again in this new edition. In this 1898 novella, John Rowland, a disgraced former Royal Navy lieutenant, has taken employment as a lowly deck hand aboard the largest ship ever to have sailed, the Titan. One night in deep fog in the North Atlantic, the Titan strikes a gigantic iceberg and sinks almost immediately. The foreword is by Sam Leith, who has examined chance and coincidence in his novel, The Coincidence Machine.
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86 printed pages
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Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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    sweet, musical voice? Has it wit, and grace, and charm? Has it a wealth of pity for suffering? These are the things I loved. I do not love her soul, if she has one. I do not want it. I want her – I need her.
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    a stranger long after my banishment, who came to her possessed of a few qualities of mind or physique that pleased her – who did not need to love her – his chances were better without that – and he steps coolly and easily into my heaven. And they tell us, that “God doeth all things well”, and that there is a heaven where all our unsatisfied wants are attended to – provided we have the necessary faith in it. That means, if it means anything, that after a lifetime of unrecognised allegiance, during which I win nothing but her fear and contempt, I may be rewarded by the love and companionship of her soul. Do I love her soul? Has her soul beauty of face and the figure and carriage of a Venus? Has
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    ‘How long,’ he mused, ‘would his ambition and love of profession last him after he had met, and won, and lost, the only woman on earth to him? Why is it – that failure to hold the affections of one among the millions of women who live, and love, can outweigh every blessing in life, and turn a man’s nature into a hell, to consume him? Who

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