The Lightning Conductor: The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car
An Edwardian Road Romance of Motor Travel, Disguise, and Social SatireBy C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson
Length7h 45m
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The Lightning Conductor: The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car transforms the early automobile into both vehicle and narrative catalyst, joining romance, travel writing, comic misadventure, and the proto-thriller. Its episodic encounters and shifting landscapes register the exhilaration and uncertainty of motor travel at the dawn of the twentieth century, when speed promised new freedoms while mechanical breakdowns, social suspicion, and chance collisions unsettled older habits of movement. The motor-car itself stands out as an unusually vivid organizing presence: a machine through which modernity becomes intimate, unpredictable, and theatrical. Written collaboratively by C. N. and A. M. Williamson, prolific British writers celebrated for travel-inflected popular fiction, the novel reflects their command of cosmopolitan settings, brisk plotting, and social observation. Their partnership brings together the pleasures of the road narrative and the conventions of Edwardian romance, situating the book within a literary culture fascinated by tourism, technology, and changing gendered possibilities. The protagonists' mobility permits encounters across class and region, while the narrative's lightness preserves a revealing record of the motor age's cultural imagination. This volume is recommended to readers of Edwardian fiction, transport history, and adventure romance alike. It offers an engaging opportunity to examine how technological novelty reshaped narrative form and social fantasy, inviting readers to follow its varied tones of comedy, suspense, and sentiment across an energetic journey.
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Rating★★★★ 3.7 (171)
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Popular History of Ireland (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)
2HENRY HOLT & CO.
3The Horrible Restaurant of the Boule d'Or, Suresnes, Near Paris,
4FROM JACK WINSTON TO LORD LANE
5MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HER FATHER
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6MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HER FATHER
7JACK WINSTON TO LORD LANE
8MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HER FATHER
9FROM JACK WINSTON TO LORD LANE
10FROM JACK WINSTON TO LORD LANE
11JACK WINSTON TO LORD LANE
12MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HER FATHER
13FROM JACK WINSTON TO LORD LANE
14MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HER FATHER
15JIMMY PAYNE TO CHAUNCEY RANDOLPH
16MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HER FATHER
17FROM MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HER FATHER
18FROM JACK WINSTON TO LORD LANE
19MISS SYBIL BARROW TO HER SCHOOL FRIEND, MISS MINNIE HOBSON, OF EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM
20MOLLY RANDOLPH TO HERSELF
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