The Signal Man Illustrated

Author : The Signal-Man Illustrated Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1659023408

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The Signal-Man Illustrated by The Signal-Man Illustrated Dickens Pdf

"""The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798746678270

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The Signal-Man Illustrated by Charles Dickens Pdf

"""The Signal-Man"" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident.The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash[1] that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death"

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101072858358

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Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798740628585

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The Signal-Man Illustrated by Charles Dickens Pdf

"The Signal-Man" is a horror/mystery story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round. The railway signal-man of the title tells the narrator of an apparition that has been haunting him. Each spectral appearance precedes a tragic event on the railway on which the signalman works. The signalman's work is at a signal-box in a deep cutting near a tunnel entrance on a lonely stretch of the railway line, and he controls the movements of passing trains. When there is danger, his fellow signalmen alert him by telegraph and alarms. Three times, he receives phantom warnings of danger when his bell rings in a fashion that only he can hear. Each warning is followed by the appearance of the spectre, and then by a terrible accident. The first accident involves a terrible collision between two trains in the tunnel. Dickens may have based this incident on the Clayton Tunnel crash that occurred in 1861, five years before he wrote the story. Readers in 1866 would have been familiar with this major disaster. The second warning involves the mysterious death of a young woman on a passing train. The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451678185

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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Pdf

Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.

Author : Enid Blyton
Publisher : Delphi Classics
Page : 16675 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781801700726

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Delphi Collected Works of Enid Blyton (Illustrated) by Enid Blyton Pdf

A highly popular British author of stories, poems and educational books for children, Enid Blyton produced numerous series that have remained worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s. Her works largely consist of mystery or adventure stories, as well as tales that take place in schools and the circus. Her ‘Famous Five’, ‘Secret Seven’, ‘Five Find-Outers’ and ‘Malory Towers’ are enduring classics of children’s literature. They feature clearly delineated good and bad characters, while constructing exciting plots that illustrate traditional moral lessons. Blyton’s vocabulary and prose style are simple and highly accessible for beginning readers. This eBook presents the largest collection of Blyton’s work ever compiled in a single edition, with numerous illustrations, rare texts and informative introductions. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Blyton’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All of the major novels, with individual contents tables * The complete ‘Famous Five’, ‘Secret Seven’, ‘Five Find-Outers’ and ‘Malory Towers’ books * Rare ‘Secret Seven’ short stories, digitised here for the first time * Wishing-Chair and Amelia Jane Stories available in no other collection * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork (when the illustrator’s work is no longer held in copyright) * Blyton’s poetry collection * Features the fully-illustrated autobiography – available here for the first time in digital publishing * Ordering of texts into chronological order and series Please visit the Delphi website for a full contents list CONTENTS: The Famous Five Books Five on a Treasure Island (1942) Five Go Adventuring Again (1943) Five Run Away Together (1944) Five Go to Smuggler’s Top (1945) Five Go Off in a Caravan (1946) Five on Kirrin Island Again (1947) Five Go Off to Camp (1948) Five Get into Trouble (1949) Five Fall into Adventure (1950) Five on a Hike Together (1951) Five Have a Wonderful Time (1952) Five Go Down to the Sea (1953) Five Go to Mystery Moor (1954) Five Have Plenty of Fun (1955) Five on a Secret Trail (1956) Five Go to Billycock Hill (1957) Five Get into a Fix (1958) Five on Finniston Farm (1960) Five Go to Demon’s Rocks (1961) Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1962) Five are Together Again (1963) Famous Five Short Stories The Secret Seven Books The Secret Seven (1949) Secret Seven Adventure (1950) Well Done Secret Seven (1951) Secret Seven on the Trail (1952) Go Ahead Secret Seven (1953) Good Work Secret Seven (1954) Secret Seven Win Through (1955) Three Cheers Secret Seven (1956) Secret Seven Mystery (1957) Puzzle for the Secret Seven (1958) Secret Seven Fireworks (1959) Good Old Secret Seven (1960) Shock for the Secret Seven (1961) Look Out Secret Seven (1962) Fun for the Secret Seven (1963) Secret Seven Short Stories Malory Towers Series First Term at Malory Towers (1946) Second Form at Malory Towers (1947) Third Year at Malory Towers (1948) Upper Fourth at Malory Towers (1949) In the Fifth at Malory Towers (1950) Last Term at Malory Towers (1951) The Adventure Series The Five Find-Outers Books Wishing-Chair Series The Amelia Jane Books The Family Series The Farm Series The Circus Series St. Clare’s Series Mr. Twiddle Books The Faraway Tree Series Mister Meddle Books The Naughtiest Girl Books The Barney Mysteries The Secret Series The Six Cousins Books The Poetry Book Child Whispers (1923) Other Books 48 more books - too many to list The Autobiography The Story of My Life (1952)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electric engineering
ISBN : MINN:31951000672880Z

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Telegraphic Journal and Monthly Illustrated Review of Electrical Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nate Silver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781101595954

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The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver Pdf

"One of the more momentous books of the decade." —The New York Times Book Review Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was thirty. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster with his near perfect prediction of the 2012 election. Silver is the founder and editor in chief of the website FiveThirtyEight. Drawing on his own groundbreaking work, Silver examines the world of prediction, investigating how we can distinguish a true signal from a universe of noisy data. Most predictions fail, often at great cost to society, because most of us have a poor understanding of probability and uncertainty. Both experts and laypeople mistake more confident predictions for more accurate ones. But overconfidence is often the reason for failure. If our appreciation of uncertainty improves, our predictions can get better too. This is the “prediction paradox”: The more humility we have about our ability to make predictions, the more successful we can be in planning for the future. In keeping with his own aim to seek truth from data, Silver visits the most successful forecasters in a range of areas, from hurricanes to baseball to global pandemics, from the poker table to the stock market, from Capitol Hill to the NBA. He explains and evaluates how these forecasters think and what bonds they share. What lies behind their success? Are they good—or just lucky? What patterns have they unraveled? And are their forecasts really right? He explores unanticipated commonalities and exposes unexpected juxtapositions. And sometimes, it is not so much how good a prediction is in an absolute sense that matters but how good it is relative to the competition. In other cases, prediction is still a very rudimentary—and dangerous—science. Silver observes that the most accurate forecasters tend to have a superior command of probability, and they tend to be both humble and hardworking. They distinguish the predictable from the unpredictable, and they notice a thousand little details that lead them closer to the truth. Because of their appreciation of probability, they can distinguish the signal from the noise. With everything from the health of the global economy to our ability to fight terrorism dependent on the quality of our predictions, Nate Silver’s insights are an essential read.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10498558

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1978-07
Category : London (England)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117434584

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson,Charles Dickens,W. F. Harvey,W. W. Jacobs,M. R. James,Amelia Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Ambrose Bierce,Sheridan Le Fanu,Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000098368

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Anthology of Classic Short Stories. Vol.5 (Horror and Ghosts). Illustrated by Robert Louis Stevenson,Charles Dickens,W. F. Harvey,W. W. Jacobs,M. R. James,Amelia Edwards,Guy de Maupassant,Ambrose Bierce,Sheridan Le Fanu,Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

This is an omnibus collection of ghost and horror stories. As may naturally be expected of a form so closely connected with primal emotion, the horror-tale is as old as human thought and speech themselves. The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens August Heat by W. F. Harvey The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You my Lad” by M. R. James The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards The Horla by Guy de Maupassant An Inhabitant of Carcosa by Ambrose Bierce Schalken the Painter by Sheridan Le Fanu The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe

Author : Sir Francis Bond Head
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015064557906

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Descriptive Essays by Sir Francis Bond Head Pdf

Author : Sir Francis Bond Head
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : English essays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007840817

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Descriptive Essays Contributed to the Quarterly Review: The air we live in by Sir Francis Bond Head Pdf

Author : Frederick Smeeton WILLIAMS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018994251

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Our Iron Roads: their history, construction, and social influences ... With numerous illustrations by Frederick Smeeton WILLIAMS Pdf

Author : Ed Ruscha
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 0262681528

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Leave Any Information at the Signal by Ed Ruscha Pdf

An anthology of writings, interviews, and images by artist Ed Ruscha. Ed Ruscha is among the most innovative artists of the last forty years. He is also one of the first Americans to introduce a critique of popular culture and an examination of language into the visual arts. Although he first made his reputation as a painter, Ruscha is also celebrated for his drawings (made both with conventional materials and with food, blood, gunpowder, and shellac), prints, films, photographs, and books. He is often associated with Los Angeles as a Pop and Conceptualist hub, but tends to regard such labels with a satirical, if not jaundiced, eye. Indeed, his work is characterized by the tensions between high and low, solemn and irreverent, and serious and nonsensical, and it draws on popular culture as well as Western art traditions. Leave Any Information at the Signal not only documents the work of this influential artist as he rose to prominence but also contains his writings and commentaries on other artistic developments of the period. The book is divided into three parts, each of which is arranged chronologically. Part one contains statements, letters, and other writings. Part two consists of more than fifty interviews, some of which have never before been published or translated into English. Part three contains sketchbook pages, word groupings, and other notes that chart how Ruscha develops ideas and solves artistic problems. They are published here for the first time. The book also contains more than eighty illustrations, selected and arranged by the artist.