The Wreck of the Titan
by Morgan Robertson
Publisher: The Quinn & Boden Co. Press 1898
ISBN/ASIN: 1843913593
Number of pages: 90
Description:
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. 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.
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