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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