This book contains four short stories, the main one, the title one, is the one most know. What make it particular is not the writing, same could be said about the others stories, not much in any of them, but the strange similarity between the story and the Titanic. It almost describe exactly the Titanic and how it sinks but it was published in 1898 and the Titanic sinks in 1912. This is kind of weird and make the book worth reading just for that. The rest of it is okay, but nothing noticeable in my opinion. An anecdotic read!