The Wreck of the Golden Mary
Charles Dickens, Holme Lee, Adelaide Anne Proctor, et al.
Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens is a collection of adventurous tales about shipwrecks, ghosts, and madness. Excerpt: "I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great deal of rough weather, both literal and metaphorical. It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life, I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things. A person might suppose, from reading the above, that I am in the habit of holding forth about number one."
Kundenbewertungen
ghostly sea narratives, Victorian maritime adventure, shipwreck survival tales, supernatural ocean voyage, self-taught sailor journey, 19th century nautical fiction, maritime peril fiction, collaborative Victorian authors, historical sea exploration, madness at sea stories