The Purple Cloud, M P Shiel
The Purple Cloud, M P Shiel
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The Purple Cloud
Penguin Classics

Author: M P Shiel, John Sutherland

Narrator: Clifford Samuel

Unabridged: 13 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 07/02/2020

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Clifford Samuel. This definitive recording includes an introduction by John Sutherland.

The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth. A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world, and as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness, and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet. Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century.

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Fantastic, weird, macabre...imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare...a remarkable piece of work...head and shoulders above the average tale of fantastic adventure New York Times Book Review

Delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty

The first great science fiction novel of the science fiction century

One of the best last-man books, The Purple Cloud still surprises with its passionate despair and prescient scenes of mass extinction, motorcars, electrified billboards and telephone sex by undersea cable Times Literary Supplement