{"product_id":"how-to-survive-the-titanic-9780062094551","title":"How to Survive the Titanic","description":"Award-winning historian Frances Wilson delivers a gripping new account of the sinking of the RMS \u003cem\u003eTitanic\u003c\/em\u003e, looking at the collision and its aftermath through the prism of the demolished life and lost honor of the ship's owner, J. Bruce Ismay. In a unique work of history evocative of Joseph Conrad's classic novel \u003cem\u003eLord Jim\u003c\/em\u003e, Wilson raises provocative moral questions about cowardice and heroism, memory and identity, survival and guilt--questions that revolve around Ismay's loss of honor and identity as his monolithic venture--a ship called \"The Last Word in Luxury\" and \"The Unsinkable\"--was swallowed by the sea and subsumed in infamy forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilson, Frances:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eFrances Wilson was educated at Oxford University and lectured on nineteenth- and twentieth-century English literature for fifteen years before becoming a full-time writer. Her books include \u003cem\u003eLiterary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Life\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. She reviews widely in the Britishpress and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She divides her time between London and Normandy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513753538834,"sku":"9780062094551","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_11546082-47a2-4d50-9b88-b9a43b1d2cf2.jpg?v=1730966472","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-to-survive-the-titanic-9780062094551","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}