A Night to Remember: The Classic Bestselling Account of the Sinking of the Titanic

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Walter Lord was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account, A Night to Remember, about the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Thirteen newlywed couples were on the Titanic. Many of these love stories would end in tragedy - John Jacob Astor (the richest man on board, died) and Madeleine Talmage Force Astor (survived), Daniel Marvin and Mary Farquharson Marvin (Daniel died, Mary survived), Victor Peñasco and Pepita Perezde de Soto y Vallejo Peñasco (Victor died, Pepita survived), Lucian Smith and Eloise Hughes Smith (Lucian died, Eloise survived), John Chapman and Lizzie Lawry Chapman (both died), John Bourke and Kate McHugh Bourke (both died), Neal McNamee and Eileen O’Leary McNamee (both died). Rasor, Eugene L. (2001). The Titanic: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31215-1.

This was the fifth night of the Titanic's maiden voyage to New York, and it was already clear that she was not only the largest but also the most glamorous ship in the world. Even the passengers' dogs were glamorous. John Jacob Astor had along his Airedale Kitty. Henry Sleeper Harper, of the publishing family, had his prize Pekingese Sun Yat-sen... Y con este libro ponemos punto y final al reto eduardiano. Parece que fue ayer cuando lo empece y ya han pasado 12 meses en los que he hecho otras tantas lecturas, ninguna de las cuales ha tenido desperdicio, ya que no pocas de ellas están entre mis mejores lecturas del año. Además, esta iniciativa me ha permitido darle una oportunidad a varias obras que tenia desde hacia mucho tiempo cogiendo polvo en mis estanterías. Como el caso del libro que nos ocupa. Two men dropped in. Purser Herbert McElroy fired twice into the air. Murdoch shouted, “Get out of this! Clear out of this!” Hugh Woolner and Bjornstrom Steffanson—attracted by the pistol flashes—rushed over to help. Yanking the culprits by arms, legs, anything, they cleared the boat. The loading continued. There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers.' - Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President This is a re-read. I first read it before I joined either Shelfari or Goodreads, so I have no record of when I read it. I believe it was in the 1980s; I know it was long before the hugely successful movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. If memory serves, I re-read it at about the time the movie was released. So this is my third reading.

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There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers." (Phillip Franklin, White Star Line Vice-President). Celeste Cumming Mt. Lebanon, "Early Titanic Film A Movie to Remember", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (11 September 1998), p. 39.

The book received widespread praise from contemporary critics. The New York Times called it "stunning ... one of the most exciting books of this or any other year". [6] The Atlantic Monthly praised the book for doing "a magnificent job of re-creative chronicling, enthralling from the first word to the last." [6] Entertainment Weekly said that it was "seamless and skillful... it's clear why this is many a researcher's Titanic bible", while USA Today described it as "the most riveting narrative of the disaster." [6] Great Fosters Hotel, Egham, Surrey, England, UK (Sir Richard and Lady Richard set off from their mansion to board the Titanic at Southampton) But they were wrong. Things gradually straightened out, and finally Boat C was ready for lowering. Chief Officer Wilde shouted to know who was in command. Hearing him, Captain Smith turned to Quartermaster Rowe—still fiddling with the Morse lamp—and told him to take charge. Rowe jumped in and got ready to lower. The film was one of the twenty most popular films of the year in Britain according to Motion Picture Herald, but it was only a modest commercial success due to the size of its original budget and its relative underperformance at the American box office. [47]

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Over 1,500 people died in the sinking of the Titanic. The 'unsinkable' ship lies 3,800 meters under the North Atlantic Ocean. A scientist from James Cameron's documentary Ghosts of the Abyss referred to the sinking as a Greek tragedy. I couldn't agree more. It is a tragedy that should never have happened. Upon its December 1958 U.S. premiere, Bosley Crowther called the film a "tense, exciting and supremely awesome drama...[that] puts the story of the great disaster in simple human terms and yet brings it all into a drama of monumental unity and scope"; according to Crowther: [45] The movie makes a hero of second officer Lightoller, who seems to have launched almost every single lifeboat. Actions that were actually performed by others were attributed to Lightoller. [39] The production was a major hit, attracting 28 million viewers, and greatly boosted the book's sales. [14] It was rerun on kinescope on 2 May 1956, five weeks after its first broadcast. [13] [18] Development [ edit ]