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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aTales from "Blackwood," Volume 1 |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2010 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2010-03-30 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aHow we got up the Glenmutchkin Railway, and how we got out of it / Professor Aytoun -- Vanderdecken's message home; or the tenacity of natural affection -- The floating beacon -- Colonna the painter: a tale of Italy and the arts -- Napoleon / J.G. Lockhart -- A legend of Gibraltar / E.B. Hamley -- The iron shroud / William Mudford. | |
| 508 | _aProduced by D Alexander, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net | ||
| 520 | _a"Tales from 'Blackwood', Volume 1" by Various is a collection of narrative fiction that encapsulates stories likely written during the 19th century. This anthology includes a variety of tales from the renowned Scottish journal, Blackwood's Magazine, showcasing a blend of commentary on societal trends and imaginative storytelling. The opening tale, "How We Got Up The Glenmutchkin Railway" by Professor Aytoun, introduces readers to the vividly absurd world of railway speculators during the era of the railway mania in Britain. At the start of the collection, the narrative centers around Augustus Reginald Dunshunner, who, alongside his equally uninspired friend Bob M'Corkindale, grapples with dwindling finances and a lack of ambition. The friends decide to embark on a ludicrous scheme to create a railway line to the fictional Glenmutchkin, a humorous critique of the reckless speculation that pervaded the 19th-century economic landscape. As they concoct a plan filled with grandiosity yet devoid of practicality, calling on comically dubious characters for their venture, the tale promises a blend of wit and social commentary that sets the tone for the stories to follow in the volume. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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| 653 | _aFiction | ||
| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
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