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Publisher Summary 1
In a novel chronicling the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, American engineer Chester Ludlow, his wife Franny, journalist Jack Trace, and musician Katerina Lindt and her husband, Joachim, become caught up in the excitement of the project. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Publisher Summary 2
On a wet London morning in 1857, American engineer Chester Ludlow arrives on the muddy banks of the Isle of Dogs to witness the launch of the largest steamship ever built, the Great Eastern. Also amidst the tumultuous throng is Jack Trace, a lonely bachelor and sketch artist hoping to make his name as an illustrator and journalist in the hurly burly of Fleet Street. The two men, along with Ludlow's wife Franny, his imposing brother Otis, the bombastic entrepreneur J. Beaumol Spude, the dwarfish inventor of the Great Eastern, the creator of the modern sewer system, his adulterous wife, and a wily prostitute will all become involved with various modes of communication, with the realization of the Victorian age. They will witness and participate in the creation of the first transoceanic telegraph cable. It is the thread that will connect worlds and break apart lives.
目录
Prologue: The Isle of Dogs (London, November 1857) p. 1
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 29
At the Theater: New York, December 1857 p. 33
Checking the House
The Actress and the Engineer
A New Kind of Show
Secret Selves
Under the Thames: London, December 1857 p. 53
A Launch at Last
A New Invention Overhead
At Willing Mind: Maine, January 1858 p. 63
Betty's Walk
Chester Prepares
Betty's Rock
The Arrival
Franny Sees a Guest
Supper and What Went Before
Rehearsing
Otis Enters
Franny Decides
Departure and Approach
An Explosion: London, Spring 1858 p. 89
A Disastrous Maiden Voyage
The Phantasmagorium Show: London, Spring 1858 p. 99
"Du und Ich"
"A Surgeon of Everything"
Success at the Bardolph
A Meeting at the Bardolph
Back at Willing Mind: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 129
A Ritual Interrupted
Without a Compass
Tiny Lights
A Letter from London
"We Do See Things"
The Novitiates
Another Letter from London
The Great Stink: London, Spring 1858 p. 151
The News Hole
The Running Man
Conflicting Theories
A Matter of Grit and Wit
Stations of the Cross
The Name Stuck
Enlarged
"Sail On!"
The Other Worlds: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 185
The Spirit Room
Something Happens
Assignations and Encounters: London, Spring 1858 p. 193
Katerina Goes
Spude on Himself
"Places, Please"
Sight Unseen
Between America and the Infinite: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 209
The Trail of Clarity
The Spiritscope and the Bar Fight
Final Preparations: London and Plymouth, Spring 1858 p. 229
On the Pier
Willing Mind Is Empty: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 235
Willing Mind Is Empty
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 243
The Expedition: England and the Atlantic Ocean, June 1858 p. 247
Irritants
The Speech
June 10, 1858
Trace Thinks He Sees Something
Swept Away
The Storm
The Incapacitated and a Job for Frau Lindt
Looking for a Sail
Trace Aloft
Breaks
"We Landed Here in the Woods": England and the Atlantic Ocean, July-August 1858 p. 301
Maddy Above the Mezzanine
The Board Meets
Over and Under London
"We Landed Here in the Woods"
Waking a Nation: New York and North America, August 1858 p. 329
Dark New World
Trace's Message
The Center of the Universe
Frau Lindt's Case
New York Lights Up the Sky
The Engineer Ascendant: New York, September 1858 p. 349
Collapsing Space and Time
"Fraud!"
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 369
The Laughingstock and the War: The Atlantic Ocean, April 1861 p. 377
The Battlefield Artist
The Ship's Artist
Jack's Progress
The Ludlow Gun: Pittsburgh, Autumn 1862 p. 387
At the Forge
The Casting
Little Rents in Time: Boston, Washington, and the Union at Large, Early September 1862 p. 395
Her Mission Fields
A Meeting at the Door
A Meeting of Minds
The Rest of the Night
Jack at War: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Late September 1862 p. 413
After the Battle
The Convocation
He Meets Her
The Secret Train: The Huron Frontier, October 1862 p. 429
How It Traveled
VanderWees's Theorems
The Test
The Revels
Franny's Reckoning: Ovid, Missouri, Autumn 1862 p. 449
Her Night
Thirty Drops: Pennsylvania, November 1862 p. 459
Her Card
Cannisteo Gorge: Various Post Offices and Pennsylvania, November 1862 p. 463
A Letter Undelivered
A Bridge
Far to the West: Far to the West, November 1862 p. 471
Far to the West
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 475
Cablemen: London and Maine, Winter-Spring 1865 p. 483
Faeries by Day, Zob by Night
The Barge Soiree
Speakers' Corner
An Embrace and News
Unspooling the Cable; Unraveling the Past: The Atlantic Ocean, July-August 1865 p. 505
Var. miles of cable paid out and taken up too numerous to mention
The Hotel Ammonoosuc: New Hampshire, Late Summer 1865 p. 543
Into the Sublime
The Show
At the Picture
They Catch Up
What Spude Hates
The Fire
The Dissolution: London and Ireland, Winter 1865-66 p. 559
A Christmas Visit
One Secret Kept, One Disclosed
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 573
To Heart's Content: Ireland and America, Summer-Fall 1866 p. 577
He Stays Behind
Reunion
Two Weeks Later
Epilogue p. 587
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 29
At the Theater: New York, December 1857 p. 33
Checking the House
The Actress and the Engineer
A New Kind of Show
Secret Selves
Under the Thames: London, December 1857 p. 53
A Launch at Last
A New Invention Overhead
At Willing Mind: Maine, January 1858 p. 63
Betty's Walk
Chester Prepares
Betty's Rock
The Arrival
Franny Sees a Guest
Supper and What Went Before
Rehearsing
Otis Enters
Franny Decides
Departure and Approach
An Explosion: London, Spring 1858 p. 89
A Disastrous Maiden Voyage
The Phantasmagorium Show: London, Spring 1858 p. 99
"Du und Ich"
"A Surgeon of Everything"
Success at the Bardolph
A Meeting at the Bardolph
Back at Willing Mind: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 129
A Ritual Interrupted
Without a Compass
Tiny Lights
A Letter from London
"We Do See Things"
The Novitiates
Another Letter from London
The Great Stink: London, Spring 1858 p. 151
The News Hole
The Running Man
Conflicting Theories
A Matter of Grit and Wit
Stations of the Cross
The Name Stuck
Enlarged
"Sail On!"
The Other Worlds: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 185
The Spirit Room
Something Happens
Assignations and Encounters: London, Spring 1858 p. 193
Katerina Goes
Spude on Himself
"Places, Please"
Sight Unseen
Between America and the Infinite: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 209
The Trail of Clarity
The Spiritscope and the Bar Fight
Final Preparations: London and Plymouth, Spring 1858 p. 229
On the Pier
Willing Mind Is Empty: Maine, Spring 1858 p. 235
Willing Mind Is Empty
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 243
The Expedition: England and the Atlantic Ocean, June 1858 p. 247
Irritants
The Speech
June 10, 1858
Trace Thinks He Sees Something
Swept Away
The Storm
The Incapacitated and a Job for Frau Lindt
Looking for a Sail
Trace Aloft
Breaks
"We Landed Here in the Woods": England and the Atlantic Ocean, July-August 1858 p. 301
Maddy Above the Mezzanine
The Board Meets
Over and Under London
"We Landed Here in the Woods"
Waking a Nation: New York and North America, August 1858 p. 329
Dark New World
Trace's Message
The Center of the Universe
Frau Lindt's Case
New York Lights Up the Sky
The Engineer Ascendant: New York, September 1858 p. 349
Collapsing Space and Time
"Fraud!"
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 369
The Laughingstock and the War: The Atlantic Ocean, April 1861 p. 377
The Battlefield Artist
The Ship's Artist
Jack's Progress
The Ludlow Gun: Pittsburgh, Autumn 1862 p. 387
At the Forge
The Casting
Little Rents in Time: Boston, Washington, and the Union at Large, Early September 1862 p. 395
Her Mission Fields
A Meeting at the Door
A Meeting of Minds
The Rest of the Night
Jack at War: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Late September 1862 p. 413
After the Battle
The Convocation
He Meets Her
The Secret Train: The Huron Frontier, October 1862 p. 429
How It Traveled
VanderWees's Theorems
The Test
The Revels
Franny's Reckoning: Ovid, Missouri, Autumn 1862 p. 449
Her Night
Thirty Drops: Pennsylvania, November 1862 p. 459
Her Card
Cannisteo Gorge: Various Post Offices and Pennsylvania, November 1862 p. 463
A Letter Undelivered
A Bridge
Far to the West: Far to the West, November 1862 p. 471
Far to the West
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 475
Cablemen: London and Maine, Winter-Spring 1865 p. 483
Faeries by Day, Zob by Night
The Barge Soiree
Speakers' Corner
An Embrace and News
Unspooling the Cable; Unraveling the Past: The Atlantic Ocean, July-August 1865 p. 505
Var. miles of cable paid out and taken up too numerous to mention
The Hotel Ammonoosuc: New Hampshire, Late Summer 1865 p. 543
Into the Sublime
The Show
At the Picture
They Catch Up
What Spude Hates
The Fire
The Dissolution: London and Ireland, Winter 1865-66 p. 559
A Christmas Visit
One Secret Kept, One Disclosed
Otis Ludlow's Journal (Ireland, 1866) p. 573
To Heart's Content: Ireland and America, Summer-Fall 1866 p. 577
He Stays Behind
Reunion
Two Weeks Later
Epilogue p. 587
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