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The Deluge. A Poem
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Deluge
First published in 1927, Deluge is one of the most famous of the English catastrophe novels. Beautifully written and action packed—RKO Radio Pictures even filmed this story—the novel depicts a flood so severe that it destroys modern civilization, leaving the few survivors to adapt to the rigors of the natural world. Like other English writers responding to the trauma of World War I, Sydney Fowler Wright expresses a loathing of the worst aspects of industrialization. The flood, in his view, becomes an opportunity for the remaking of society. The protagonists soon realize that civilization and technology have divorced them from the knowledge and skills necessary for survival. Released from their over-reliance on social regulation, they struggle to overcome their own brutality to develop a new sense of community. For over 75 years readers have praised this book for its style and wisdom, and debated the meaning of its controversial ending. This Wesleyan edition is graced with an excellent introduction and annotations by leading science fiction scholar Brian Stableford.
The Second Deluge
The earth is going to pass into a nebula that will cause massive flooding! Cosmo Versal struggles to warn the planet and save humanity!
The Deluge
David Graham Phillips' fiction weaves a tale of love, ambition, and speculation in the bustling streets of New York. Against the backdrop of Wall Street, this narrative explores the dynamics of wealth and power in 19th-century America.
Deluge
This stunning debut blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and pop culture in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.
The Deluge; British Society and the First World War
A little rabbit who wants to run away tells his mother how he will escape, but she is always right behind him.
Deluge
The “landmark disaster novel” that follows the story of two survivors after a global flood has wiped out civilization (Publishers Weekly). An immediate bestseller upon its release in the early twentieth century, Deluge takes place in the English Midlands as a man struggles to save his injured wife and small children amid the destruction wrought by a catastrophic storm. He is then separated from his family by a sudden and terrifying surge of water. Numb and stunned, he proceeds through a world transformed, where those few who have remained alive against overwhelming odds, with neither the comforts nor the constraints of an orderly industrial society, attempt to survive. The basis of a 1933 film, Deluge is a riveting milestone in post-apocalyptic fiction. “Among the best world-catastrophe novels, grimly realistic in [its] depiction of human nature under stress.” —Science Fiction Studies
