Ebook {Epub PDF} The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton may be long gone but his books still grab you. The Great Train Robbery is a great tale from beginning to end, enormously well researched to reflect the language and mores of Victorian times, and produces great suspense up to a highly satisfactory ending, Better yet it tells of a true event that Crichton doesn't have to work very hard to embellish/5(K). From the very first “Official Website”, Michael Crichton hand-picked these passages from The Great Train Robbery: From The Great Train Robbery: This singular gentleman was Edward Pierce, and for a man destined to become so notorious that Queen Victoria herself expressed a desire to meet him — or, barring that, to attend his hanging — he remains an oddly mysterious figure.  · The Great Train Robbery is a gripping heist novel set in the 's. Crichton doesn't skimp on the Victoriana, either. The social climate and attitudes of the time are in full force, as is Victorian criminal slang. Critchton throws the reader into the deep end with his /5(K).

The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton | Editorial Reviews. Paperback $ $ Save 12% Current price is $, Original price is $ You Save 12%. Paperback. $ NOOK Book. $ Audio MP3 on CD. $ Audio CD. $ View All Available Formats Editions. Ship This. I always want to like The First Great Train Robbery more than I actually do. The trouble is, Michael Crichton's novel (loosely based on the Great Gold Robbery of ) is a straight, quasi-factual affair, whereas the movie aims to be a heist romp and Crichton as a screenwriter and director seems to struggle with this lighter touch. The book is Michael Crichton's The Great Train Robbery (which took place in ). If anyone can provide me with a pointer that is a shortcut to information about Victorian attitudes about gender, I would appreciate hearing about it. It appears that feminism has its roots firmly in that age and that not much has changed about our attitudes that.

The Great Train Robbery is a bestselling historical novel written by Michael Crichton, his third novel under his own name and his thirteenth novel overall. Originally published in the USA by Alfred A. Knopf (then, a division of Random House), it is currently published by Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The Great Train Robbery is a gripping heist novel set in the 's. Crichton doesn't skimp on the Victoriana, either. The social climate and attitudes of the time are in full force, as is Victorian criminal slang. Critchton throws the reader into the deep end with his talk of bone lays, twirls, drums, and gammons. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out. England, s. A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one.