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In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive ...… (mehr)
Anonymer Nutzer: If you enjoy the novel, the film is a must - and vice versa. Crichton wrote the screenplay and directed himself. There are plenty of changes, but all of them work well on the screen. Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland are perfect in the leading roles, as is everybody in the large supporting cast. The production design is not the most lavish possible, but that's a minor defect.… (mehr)
Esta novela de acción es una auténtica obra maestra del género. Ambientada en la època victoriana, el brumoso Londres finisecular sirve de telón de fondo para el robo más espectacular del siglo. Una vez al mes sale de Londres con destino a París un tren que transporta la paga del ejército británico que lucha en Crimea. Las dos cajas fuertes que la contienen son inviolables, y para abrirlas, se necesitan cuatro llaves distintas que están en poder de cuatro personas. Sin embargo, las cajas llegan vacias a París....
This was fun. A "highly fictionalized" (according to the wiki gods) account of the planning and execution of the theft of gold bullion (worth approximately 1.2 million dollars in today's money) from a train in motion on the London to Folkestone run in 1855. The word "novel" is prominent on the cover, so no one should be misled, but it reads very much like good narrative non-fiction. For sheer 19th century hi-jinks, though, this is right up there with The Wild, Wild, West, and almost as preposterous. Liberties are taken with the facts, but it did happen, and almost caused an international incident as the gold was bound for France. As usual, Crichton's story-telling is irresistible. ( )
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Satan is glad-when I am bad, And hopes that I-with him shall lie In fire and chains- and dreadful pains -Victorian Child's Poem, 1856
I wanted the money. -Edward Pierce, 1856
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Erste Worte
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Intro:
It is difficult, after the passage of more than a century, to understand the extent to which the train robbery of 1855 shocked the sensibilities of Victorian England.
Forty minutes out of London, passing through the rolling green fields and cherry orchards of Kent, the morning train of the South Eastern Railway attained its maximum speed of fifty-four miles per hour.
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Satan is blij - met een stoute mij En hoopt dat ik - mijn wonden lik In zwavel en azijn - en afschuwelijke pijn. (Victoriaans kinderversje, 1856)
"Ik wilde het geld hebben." (Edward Pierce, 1856)
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The money from The Great Train Robbery was never recovered.
In teeming Victorian London, where lavish wealth and appalling poverty live side by side, Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the daring theft of a fortune in gold? Who could predict the consequences of making the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England's industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, as lively as legend, and studded with all the suspense and style of a modern fiction master, here is a classic caper novel set a decade before the age of dynamite--yet nonetheless explosive ...
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