An edition of Writing the rails
(2001)
Writing the rails
train adventures by the world's best-loved writers
by Edward C. Goodman
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Writing the rails: train adventures by the world's best-loved writers
2001, Black Dog & Levanthal, Distributed by Workman Publishing Co.
in English
1579122051 9781579122058
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Fanny Kemble - A Trip on Stephenson's Rocket, August, 1830
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Celestial Railroad
Charles Dickens - from Dombey and Son
John Ruskin - from The Seven Lamps ofArchitecture
Henry David Thoreau - "What's the Railroad to Me?"
Emily Dickinson - "I Like to See It Lap the Miles"
Walt Whitman - "To A Locomotive in Winter"
Charles Dickens - "Dickens in Danger"
Stephen Ambrose - from Nothing Like It in the World
Archibald MacLeish - "Burying Ground by the Ties"
Mark Twain - from The Innocents Abroad
John Ruskin - "Fors Clavigera"
Lewis Carroll - from Through the Looking - Glass and What Alice Found There
Thomas Cook - from The Daily Mail
Robert Louis Stevenson - "From a Railway Carriage"
Thomas Chambers - from A Manual of Diet in Health and Disease
W. H. Davies - Hobo's Train
George Curzon - The Gloom and Grandeur of Central Asia
Czar Alexander III - "To Unite the Great Siberian Provinces "
Thomas Hardy - "Faintheart in the Railway Train"
Clifton Hood - from 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
Robert Louis Stevenson - Emigrant Train
David Graves George - "Wreck of the Old 97"
Rudyard Kipling - "Romance"
Alan B. Govenar and Jay E Brakefield - The Railroads Create Deep Ellum
Hilaire Belloc - Belloc Breaks a Vow
Edith Wharton - A Journey
E. M. Forster - from Where Angels Fear to Tread
E. M. Forster - from Howard's End
Rupert Brooke - "Dawn"
G. K. Chesterton - The Prehistoric Railway Station
Sherwood Anderson - "Evening Song"
Siegfried Sassoon - "Morning Express"
Siegfried Sassoon - "A Local Train ofThought"
Mary McCarthy - The Cicerone
Katherine Mansfield - Father and the Girls
Katherine Mansfield - The Little Governess
Carl Sandburg - "Work Gangs"
E Scott Fitzgerald - from The Great Gatsby
Langston Hughes - "Homesick Blues"
Langston Hughes - "Pennsylvania Station"
John Dos Passos - Bedbug Express
Stephen Spender - "The Express"
Peter Fleming - A Crash on the Trans - Siberian Railway
Rebecca West - Deliverance
George (Henry Sandham) Behrend - Chapter 12: No Train Tonight
Dale Wasserman - Flipping the Meat Train
F Scott Fitzgerald - from Tender is the Night
Edna St. Vincent Millay - "From a Train Window"
Box - Car Bertha - from Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box Car Bertha
W. H. Auden - "Gare du Midi"
Simone de Beauvoir - from L'Amerique au jour le jour (America Day by Day)
H.V. Morton - from In Search of South Africa
Roger Lloyd - Watching the Trains Go By
Alfred Maund - from The Big Boxcar
W. A. Tuplin - The Old Great Western
Russell Baker - Spartan's Odyssey
V S. Naipaul - In the Middle of the journey
Paul Theroux - The Kalka Mailfor Simla
Michael Wood - Zambezi Express
Kirsti Simonsuuri - Kaamos, The Darkest Time of the Year
Henry Kisor - from Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America
Francois Barcelo - from The Man Who Stopped Trains
Scyld Berry - Adelaide to Alice Springs
Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton - Of Time and the Train
Stuart Stevens - from Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
Eric Zorn - Rolling Homefor Christmas: Riding Amtrak in the 1980s
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran - Love Lettersfrom the Train
Marda Burton - Whistlin' Through Dixie
Terry Pindell - Passages: The Lake Shore Limited
Maureen Hurley - Night Train to Moscow: Waging Peace
Mary Morris - from Wall - to - Wall: From Beijing to Berlin By Rail
George E Scheer III - Aboard the Crescent
Michael Palin - Pretoria,Johannesburg, Soweto, a Gold Mine, and the Blue Train to Cape Town
Damian Sharp - When a Monkey Speaks
Michael M. Lewis - Amtrak Diarist: Train People
William Poole - Down to the Pacific Shore
Paul Theroux - The "Virgin de Guadalupe" Express to Barcelona and Beyond
Donald G. McNeil Jr. - Out of Pretoria, by Luxury Train
Ian Frazier - Take the F
Terry Pindell - Excerpt of the Man With Fire
Bill Bryson - from In a Sunburned Country
Paul Theroux - Gravy Train:A Private Railway Car
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