
The Wreck of the Titan
Start Publishing LLC · Print & ebook · October 19, 2015
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- Who it’s for
- A maritime disaster story whose resemblance to the Titanic’s sinking lends it an unsettling double edge.
- Themes
- Maritime disaster, Tragedy and loss, Love and redemption
- Genres
- Sea Stories, Historical Fiction, The Classics
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The Wreck of the Titan was written fourteen years before the sinking of the Titanic. The events in book are eerily similar to the actual events that would not happen for more than a decade.
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Titan the largest ship in the line is considered to be unsinkable, it is roughly the same size as the Titanic with about the same number of passengers, it was not provided with enough life boats for all of its passages, and half of the passengers died when it sank after hitting an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. So similar were the incidents described in the book to the sinking of the Titanic that many people credited the author, Morgan Robertson, with clairvoyance. The Dr. Who episode of the same name was based on the events in this book. A story of tragedy, loss, love and redemption.
An Uncanny Crossing
A maritime disaster story whose resemblance to the Titanic’s sinking lends it an unsettling double edge.
Come here for
- A classic sea story with striking Titanic parallels
- The eerie pull of fiction that seems to anticipate history
Expect
- Tragedy, loss, love, and redemption
- A sustained narrative centered on a shipwreck
Where it sits
| Sea Stories | 86% |
|---|---|
| Historical Fiction | 41% |
| The Classics | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- The Classics
- Romance Adventure
- Authors
- Morgan Robertson
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- October 19, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Maritime disaster · Tragedy and loss · Love and redemption
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure