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The fallen colossus / Robert Sobel.
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View onlineLIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HE2791.P4326 S64 1977
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sobel, Robert, 1931 February 19-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Penn Central Transportation Company.
- Railroads--United States--Finance.
- Railroads.
- United States.
- Finance.
- Capital--United States.
- Capital.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 370 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Weybright and Talley, [1977]
- Summary:
- The bestselling author of "Ghost Story" returns to the supernatural genre for the first time in over a decade. Over the week culminating in his 35th birthday, Ned Dunstan endures a series of extraordinary events which reveal the long-withheld secret of his identity.
- Contents:
- Origins
- The Pennsylvania and the Central
- The eastern destiny
- A yearning for security
- The last hoorah
- Indian summer
- Decay
- The coming of the barbarian
- Under new management
- The mood to merge
- A recipe for disaster
- The dead phoenix
- The fallen colossus
- Metamorphosis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-356) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of George H. Strimel, Jr.
- ISBN:
- 0679401385
- 9780679401384
- OCLC:
- 2346155
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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