Writing the Rails: Train Adventures by the World’s Best-Loved Writers

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Year: 2001
Pages: 368
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 1579122051

Product Code: 756775515

Description

Edward C. Goodman (ed). This is a collection of train travel stories by renowned writers from around the world & throughout history. The essays, historic accounts, fiction, poetry, songs & other pieces that comprise this anthology have been carefully selected from the widest range of sources to reflect the glories of travel by rail, from a jaunt on the Orient Express to an express ride on a N.Y. City subway. The writers include: Mary McCarthy, Paul Theroux, Lewis Carroll, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Thomas Hardy, Langston Hughes, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, V.S. Naipul, Rudyard Kipling, & Carl Sandburg. Each piece is introduced by a brief biographical sketch of the author.

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