The Signalman And His Work

Author : Charles Dickens
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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 2021-04-25 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Signal-Man" is aHorror/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 : Kenneth L. Van Auken
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Grant P. Hudson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781326507268
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Stories Really Work written by Grant P. Hudson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity, energy and effectiveness. Learn what a story really is and what it is actually doing to and for readers, how all successful fiction follows universal patterns to attract and grip readers, the magnetic power that draws readers into a work of fiction even before the introduction of any character, what the thing called a 'character' actually is, and the secrets of how to rapidly build a convincing one that attracts readers, the things called 'plots', what they are and how they are actually made (rather than how you might suppose they are made). Find out about the writing model which, if followed, will create a machine generating unimaginable numbers of readers and heightened reader satisfaction for you, based on some of the most successful pieces of literature in the English-speaking world.

Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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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:

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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book The Signalman's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : KT Johnston
Publisher : Capstone Editions
ISBN 13 : 1684460883
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railway Jack written by KT Johnston and published by Capstone Editions. This book was released on 2020 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim was a South African railway inspector in the late 1800s who lost his legs in an accident while at work. Unable to perform all his tasks with his disability but desperate to keep his job, Jim discovered a brilliant solution, a baboon named Jack. Jim trained Jack to help him both at home and at the depot. But when the railway authorities and the public discovered a monkey on the job, Jack and Jim had to work together to convince everyone that they made a great team. This inspiring true story celebrates the history of service animals and a devoted friendship.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832262
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Signalman written by Charles Dickens and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed, killing ten passengers, and badly wounding forty. Dickens was profoundly affected by the disaster, and a year later, he published The Signalman, a supremely atmospheric ghost story in which the narrator, while investigating a dank and lonely railway cutting, meets the signalman who works there. His new acquaintance appears to live under the shadow of an unbearable secret, haunted by an apparition whose appearance prefigures terrible rail accidents. Drawing on Dickens own experiences, and introduced by Simon Bradley, author of The Railways, The Signalman is both an important piece of rail history, and a sinister tale which will make you think twice next time you enter the quiet carriage.

Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Signal-Man Illustrated written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-14 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 : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To be Read at Dusk written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dickens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dombey and Son written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: