Web
by:
John Wyndham (author)
The island of Tanakuatua seems like heaven to the 40 people who go there in order to create a utopian society, but soon they start to die in a horrible way and it seems that something strange and deadly is out there in the jungle.
The island of Tanakuatua seems like heaven to the 40 people who go there in order to create a utopian society, but soon they start to die in a horrible way and it seems that something strange and deadly is out there in the jungle.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140053388 (0140053387)
Publish date: June 1987
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 141
Edition language: English
“Hundreds of thousands of them.” Kingsley Amis in his ‘New Maps Of Hell’ praises John Wyndham’s ‘coherence and concision’ and ‘Web’ is a good example of such qualities; Wyndham does here for Spider Island what he did for walking killer plants. Rejected by his publishers and only surfacing posthumous...
Never used to have a problem with spiders, in fact I am quite fond of the clever little buggers. But, from here on in, thanks solely to Mr Wyndham, I will be eyeing them with extreme caution.
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