5/19/2023 0 Comments Every man for himself book![]() The tone is less overtly comic than Bainbridge's early novels, but there are still plenty of funny moments. The story is largely a microcosm of the British class system, and the disaster prefigures its wider collapse into the Great War, as loss of face outweighs technical concerns and the comfort and social experience of the first class passengers is paramount. ![]() His journey is somewhat picaresque - he spends most of the voyage scheming, drinking, gambling and chasing women, and any heroic qualities he has only emerge near the end as he helps co-ordinate the evacuation and contrives an unlikely Hollywood style escape that conveniently allows him to live to tell the tale. The story of the maiden voyage of the Titanic is a familiar one, but Bainbridge still managed an impressively fresh reimagination of the personal experiences of a rich young Anglo-American who has been adopted by the family of J.P. ![]()
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