The Wreck Of The Titan: Or, Futility

An uncanny maritime tale that still unsettles. It still shocks the reader. Morgan Robertson's The Wreck Of The Titan: Or, Futility stands as a striking example of a classic maritime disaster novel, lean in style, unsentimental in outlook, and centred on an iceberg collision theme that drives its stark climax. Set against an Atlantic ocean setting and steeped in the traditions of Victorian era sea stories, the narrative reads as both a taut nautical adventure story and an unvarnished shipwre...