Lucy Scholes, Daily Beast Must Reads A gripping retrospective on the Titanic disaster seen through the eyes of the wealthy ships owner.and an inspired interweaving of the moral themes of guilt and responsibility - Richard Holmes, Wall Street Journal A gripping account.Wilson brings a bright new perspective to the event raising provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt. Hermione Eyre, Evening Standard A haunting story.A meticulously researched and eloquently written account of one of the twentieth centurys most iconic disasters explores a man mired in the moment of his jump. ![]() This book is a deep reading of the catastrophe through one hapless, inert man. Kirkus Reviews Wilson herself casts a Conradian spell.finds submerged truths, unravels riddles, listens to echoes. Library Journal The author demonstrates an impressive knowledge of that night to remember. Titanic completists will certainly want this, and also.readers of biography and Edwardian-era history. Publishers Weekly It is a pleasure to read a book.that offers something new on this topic. her approach yields a rich meditation on the mere moments hesitation that separates cowardice from courage. Review Quotes Wilson gives an absorbing account of the disaster and its cultural associations. But as Wilson superbly demonstrates, we all have our own Titanics, and we all need to find ways of surviving them. For those who survived the Titanic, the world was never the same. Examining Ismay through the lens of Joseph Conrads prophetic novel Lord Jim-and using Ismays letters to the beautiful Marion Thayer, a first-class passenger with whom he had fallen in love during the voyage-biographer Frances Wilson explores the shattered shipowners desperate need to tell his story, to make sense of the horror of it all, and to find a way of living with the consciousness of his lost honor. He survived the ships sinking-but his life and reputation would never recover. Bruce Ismay, the owner of the RMS Titanic, jumped into a lifeboat filled with women and children and rowed away to safety. From the Back Cover On April 14, 1912, as one thousand men prepared to die, J. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrads classic novel Lord Jim, Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt-questions that revolve around Ismays loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture-a ship called The Last Word in Luxury and The Unsinkable-was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever. Book Synopsis Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ships owner, J. ![]() About the Book Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ships owner, J.
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