The Signal Man Illustrated

Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book The Signal-Man Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: """The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"

Author : The Signal-Man Illustrated Dickens
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ISBN 13 : 9781659023404
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Signal-Man Illustrated written by The Signal-Man Illustrated Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: """The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"

Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Mugby Junction written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451678185
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Man written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.

Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781501066092
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Victorian Ghost Stories written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghostly coaches shuttling the mildewed cadavers of its ill-fated occupants; a young orphan being lured to a frosty death by a pale, little girl with a mangled shoulder; a man spends the night in a room with a fatal past; a restless ne'er-do-well recognizes his fiancee with her throat cut in a twilit vision; a beautiful woman is sold by her uncle to a corpse living beneath a church... These are the images that haunted their authors' brains and found their way into the Golden Age of the British ghost story... As industrial Britain steamed away from its feudal-agrarian past, a sense of self-deceit and insecurity - a lingering of violent potential and national shame - pervaded the collective unconscious of the world's preeminent empire. This psychological malaise manifested itself in the English ghost story, which saw its golden era in the Victorian Age. The unsettling works of Dickens, Gaskell, Blackwood, Hardy, Nesbit, Conan Doyle, M. R. James, Braddon, Broughton, Oliphant, Wells, and Le Fanu grace this brief homage to that unique literary era of elegance, mystique, and horror.

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Total Pages : 224 pages
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Download or read book The Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 728 pages
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Download or read book Illustrated London News written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ed Ruscha
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262681520
Total Pages : 484 pages
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Download or read book Leave Any Information at the Signal written by Ed Ruscha and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-02-27 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed Ruscha. Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and shellac), prints, films, photographs, and books. He is often associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced, eye. Indeed, his work is characterized by the tensions between high and low, solemn and irreverent, and serious and nonsensical, and it draws on popular culture as well as Western art traditions. Leave Any Information at the Signal not only documents the work of this influential artist as he rose to prominence but also contains his writings and commentaries on other artistic developments of the period. The book is divided into three parts, each of which is arranged chronologically. Part one contains statements, letters, and other writings. Part two consists of more than fifty interviews, some of which have never before been published or translated into English. Part three contains sketchbook pages, word groupings, and other notes that chart how Ruscha develops ideas and solves artistic problems. They are published here for the first time. The book also contains more than eighty illustrations, selected and arranged by the artist.

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Total Pages : 678 pages
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Download or read book Telegraphic Journal and Monthly Illustrated Review of Electrical Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth L. Van Auken
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book The Signalman and His Work written by Kenneth L. Van Auken and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: