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The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop them the Triffids - walking carnivorous plants with lethal stingers - rise up as humanity stumbles and falls . . .
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The day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- John Wyndham
- Verlag
- Penguin Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0241970571
- ISBN13
- 9780241970577
- Reihe
- Die Waffen des Todes
- Kuratierte Auswahl
- Penguin essentials
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Sci-Fi, Klassiker, Spannung, Tod, Geschenke für Männer, England, Großbritannien, Englische Literatur, Verfilmt, London, Angst, Zukunft, Postapokalypse, Serienvorlagen, Chaos, Überlebenskampf, Verzweiflung, Rettung, Hunger, Klassizismus, Blindheit, Invasion
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1951
- Originaltitel
- The Day of the Triffids
- Bewertung
- 4,55 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop them the Triffids - walking carnivorous plants with lethal stingers - rise up as humanity stumbles and falls . . .