Transatlantic Telegraph Cable - in Fiction

In Fiction

  • The cable is one of the many underwater landmarks observed by the Nautilus in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
  • The 2003 novel Signal & Noise, by John Griesemer, tells a fictionalized story of the project, including many incidents from real life.
  • In the novel Open the Door! (1918) by Catherine Carswell, the Bannermans visit the Great Eastern, which lay in Liverpool harbor as a show ship before being broken up; Linnet Bannerman's imagination has been captured by the cable.
  • Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Great Sea-Serpent" describes the havoc and confusion among the sea-dwellers caused by the laying of the cable.

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