Richard Jefferies
Birth date: November 06, 1848
Died: August 14, 1887
Richard Jefferies's Books
If you haven't read this book yet, there's no time like the present.If you like apocalyptic fiction, and if you like old books, you're in for a treat. While the plot is rather slow, the writing is glorious, and it carries you along peacefully, much like the protagonist spends a lot of time being car...
Another early example of post-apocalyptic writing, albeit 60 years after Shelley's "The Last Man". Stylistically this is a lot easier to read. For a Victorian era writer, Jeffries has a distinctly clean and clear "let's get on with it" style. The book is divided into two parts, and the first rela...
Read in e-text version. A very early post-apocalyptic novel in which an unnamed catastrophe has huge environmental consequences and society falls back to the level of feudalism. Told in 2 parts the first and shortest is the strongest writing with its descriptions of the natural world. Oddly reminisc...
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