The Open Boat Group

Topic: Novels, Stories, Etc. About Disasters?

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billk

What are some titles of stories, novels, plays, or poems that have disasters or accidents (like ship or train wrecks) as their main subject?

I'm thinking of works like Crane's "The Open Boat" that is fiction based upon an event that Crane actually experienced or even songs like "Casey Jones" that relate, in a fictionalized way, a disastrous train wreck.

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Here are some titles of poems:

"The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Longfellow

"The Wreck of the Deutschland" by Hopkins

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by G. Lightfoot

"The Tay Bridge Disaster" by McGonagall

"Convergence of the Twain" by Hardy (about the Titanic)

"Auto Wreck" by Shapiro

"The Wreck of the Admella" by Angas

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carebr2

Stephen Layne's this side of paradise and Neal Shusterman's Shadow Club

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