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The Unsinkable Titan's Fatal Voyage from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Traces the great steamship Titan from its confident departure through two collisions and its final sinking.

The Unsinkable Titan's Fatal Voyage

Traces the great steamship Titan from its confident departure through two collisions and its final sinking.

John Rowland's Search for Justice from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Follows Rowland's moral battle to expose the Titan's fatal cover-up, from bribery to his final refusal to testify.

John Rowland's Search for Justice

Follows Rowland's moral battle to expose the Titan's fatal cover-up, from bribery to his final refusal to testify.

The Return of the Child from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Traces the child Myra from shipboard near-tragedy through rescue and reunion.

The Return of the Child

Traces the child Myra from shipboard near-tragedy through rescue and reunion.

The Legal War Over the Titan's Insurance from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Follows Mr. Meyer's fight to avoid paying the Titan's insurance and the complicated legal battle that follows.

The Legal War Over the Titan's Insurance

Follows Mr. Meyer's fight to avoid paying the Titan's insurance and the complicated legal battle that follows.

A Life Rebuilt From Ruin from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Traces Rowland's long climb from alcoholic sailor to sober government clerk and his final invitation back into Myra's world.

A Life Rebuilt From Ruin

Traces Rowland's long climb from alcoholic sailor to sober government clerk and his final invitation back into Myra's world.

The Underwriter's Gamble from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Mr. Meyer's personal and financial collapse as the heaviest insurer of the Titan.

The Underwriter's Gamble

Mr. Meyer's personal and financial collapse as the heaviest insurer of the Titan.

Captain Barry's Saving Kindness from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The Peerless captain who rescues Rowland, protects him, and finally sends him to New York.

Captain Barry's Saving Kindness

The Peerless captain who rescues Rowland, protects him, and finally sends him to New York.

Mrs. Selfridge's Ordeal from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The young mother's voyage from terror of Rowland to loss, grief, and final gratitude.

Mrs. Selfridge's Ordeal

The young mother's voyage from terror of Rowland to loss, grief, and final gratitude.

The Grandfather's Quest from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Mr. Selfridge's search for his son and granddaughter, ending in recognition and sudden death.

The Grandfather's Quest

Mr. Selfridge's search for his son and granddaughter, ending in recognition and sudden death.

The Vanishing Witnesses from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". How the steamship company and underwriters manipulate or silence everyone who could prove the Royal Age collision.

The Vanishing Witnesses

How the steamship company and underwriters manipulate or silence everyone who could prove the Royal Age collision.

John Rowland's Resurrection from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Focuses strictly on Rowland's spiritual and physical transformation from wreck to redemption.

John Rowland's Resurrection

Focuses strictly on Rowland's spiritual and physical transformation from wreck to redemption.

Captain Bryce's Fall from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The Titan's captain moves from confident cover-up to public disgrace.

Captain Bryce's Fall

The Titan's captain moves from confident cover-up to public disgrace.

Mr. Selfridge's Fatal Hour from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The old stockholder's last ten weeks: waiting, hope, recognition, and death.

Mr. Selfridge's Fatal Hour

The old stockholder's last ten weeks: waiting, hope, recognition, and death.

Myra Selfridge's Reawakening from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Tracks Mrs. Selfridge's movement from a weak, frightened wife to a bereaved mother and finally an admirer of Rowland's courage.

Myra Selfridge's Reawakening

Tracks Mrs. Selfridge's movement from a weak, frightened wife to a bereaved mother and finally an admirer of Rowland's courage.

Little Myra's Odyssey from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The child's journey from pampered passenger to shipwrecked waif and finally to beloved granddaughter.

Little Myra's Odyssey

The child's journey from pampered passenger to shipwrecked waif and finally to beloved granddaughter.

Greed versus Human Life from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The conflict between the Titan's profit-driven speed and the value of the lives on board.

Greed versus Human Life

The conflict between the Titan's profit-driven speed and the value of the lives on board.

Man Against the Indifferent Sea from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Rowland's elemental struggle with fog, ice, cold, and a polar bear.

Man Against the Indifferent Sea

Rowland's elemental struggle with fog, ice, cold, and a polar bear.

The Institutional Cover-Up from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The evolving conflict between Rowland's truth and the steamship company's strategies to bury it.

The Institutional Cover-Up

The evolving conflict between Rowland's truth and the steamship company's strategies to bury it.

Outsider versus Polite Society from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Rowland's repeated collision with the assumptions and cruelties of class-bound society.

Outsider versus Polite Society

Rowland's repeated collision with the assumptions and cruelties of class-bound society.

The Battle over Memory and Testimony from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The legal conflict over what can be proven, remembered, and sworn about the Titan.

The Battle over Memory and Testimony

The legal conflict over what can be proven, remembered, and sworn about the Titan.

The Old Love That Would Not Die from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Rowland's unrequited love for Myra Gaunt haunts him across the entire book and finally becomes a door back into her life.

The Old Love That Would Not Die

Rowland's unrequited love for Myra Gaunt haunts him across the entire book and finally becomes a door back into her life.

The Child Who Chose Him from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The growing bond between Rowland and the little girl he saves, from playful encounter to helpless need.

The Child Who Chose Him

The growing bond between Rowland and the little girl he saves, from playful encounter to helpless need.

Mother and Child Torn and Reunited from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The emotional thread of Myra Selfridge's motherhood, from possessive fear to unbearable loss to final reunion.

Mother and Child Torn and Reunited

The emotional thread of Myra Selfridge's motherhood, from possessive fear to unbearable loss to final reunion.

The Friendship of Two Captains from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The dependable, warm friendship between disgraced Rowland and Captain Barry, who saves him repeatedly.

The Friendship of Two Captains

The dependable, warm friendship between disgraced Rowland and Captain Barry, who saves him repeatedly.

The Grandfather's Embrace from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Mr. Selfridge's love for his son's child, discovered in the middle of a legal war and ended by his own death.

The Grandfather's Embrace

Mr. Selfridge's love for his son's child, discovered in the middle of a legal war and ended by his own death.

The Idolatry of the Unsinkable from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Places the Titan's supposed invincibility as the central thematic irony, measuring human pride against the sea.

The Idolatry of the Unsinkable

Places the Titan's supposed invincibility as the central thematic irony, measuring human pride against the sea.

The Arithmetic of Greed from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Explores how calculation, profit, and risk replace seamanship and mercy.

The Arithmetic of Greed

Explores how calculation, profit, and risk replace seamanship and mercy.

Atheist in the Storm from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Rowland's religious crisis moves from militant denial to an involuntary prayer for the child.

Atheist in the Storm

Rowland's religious crisis moves from militant denial to an involuntary prayer for the child.

The Balance of Events from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". The book's moral algebra: suffering inflicted returns as suffering received, and love wasted still gets weighed.

The Balance of Events

The book's moral algebra: suffering inflicted returns as suffering received, and love wasted still gets weighed.

Civilized Men and Natural Law from "The Wreck of the Titan, or Futility". Contrasts the artificial, corrupt world ashore with Rowland's raw survival on the ice.

Civilized Men and Natural Law

Contrasts the artificial, corrupt world ashore with Rowland's raw survival on the ice.