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The Purple Cloud
- Author
- M P Shiel
- Narrator
- Clifford Samuel
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 2 July 2020
- Run Time
- 13 hours 53 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
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.
(P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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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
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Delivered with a skill and artistry falling little short of actual majesty
H P Lovecraft
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The first great science fiction novel of the science fiction century
John Clute
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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
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Details
- Author
- M P Shiel
- Narrator
- Clifford Samuel
- Duration
- 13 hours 53 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 July 2020
- ISBN
- 9780141993416
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Classic science fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.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.(P) Penguin Audio 2020
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