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| Format: | Paperback, 256 pages |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2000 |
The triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world. The narrator of this novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world, he has survived to witness a new world. But the new world that awaits him is fantastic and horrific. About the AuthorJohn Wyndham was born in 1903. After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921. Careers which he tried included farming, law, commercial art, and advertising, and he first started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army. In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including "The Kraken Wakes", "The Chrysalids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos". |
| Publisher: | Penguin Classics |
| ISBN: | 0141185414 |
| EAN: | 9780141185415 |
| Dimensions: | 19.0 x 12.0 x 1.0 centimeters (0.19 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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