The Wreck of the Golden Mary
A Victorian Shipwreck Anthology of Maritime Peril, Inset Tales, and Shared StorytellingBy Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Percy Fitzgerald, Holme Lee, Adelaide Anne Proctor, Rev. James White
Length4h
About this audiobook
The Wreck of the Golden Mary gathers six linked narratives within the framing device of a shipwreck, transforming Victorian Christmas reading into a study of survival, memory, and moral responsibility. Its mixture of maritime adventure, domestic realism, confession, verse, and reflective essay gives the volume an unusually varied tonal range. The survivors' accounts—including a haunted tale of jealousy and a moving meditation on maternal loss—place sensation alongside sentiment, religious inquiry, and social observation. Produced for Dickens's Household Words, the collection brings together writers associated with mid-Victorian periodical culture and its expansive popular readership. Dickens's editorial vision joins Wilkie Collins's developing interest in suspense and sensation with Percy Fitzgerald's journalistic versatility, Holme Lee's domestic fiction, Adelaide Anne Proctor's devotional lyricism, and Rev. James White's moral and historical concerns. Their distinct voices illuminate the collaborative character of the Victorian Christmas number, where entertainment, reformist sympathy, and literary experiment could coexist. This volume rewards readers seeking a compact yet richly various encounter with Victorian literature. It offers an exceptional opportunity to trace how different genres and sensibilities respond to catastrophe, community, grief, and endurance. Read together, these contributions provide both an engaging narrative experience and an instructive dialogue about the cultural ambitions of nineteenth-century collaborative fiction.
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GenreGeneral Fiction
Length4 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 8, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Para Handy Tales — The Vital Spark (Annotated)
2THE WRECK.
3THE BEGUILEMENT IN THE BOATS.
4THE DELIVERANCE.
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