### From the Inside Flap A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultima
Earth Abides
✍ Scribed by George Franklin Stewart
- Publisher
- Fawcett;Ballantine Books, Del Rey
- Year
- 2011;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 260 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From the Inside Flap
A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of the globe, all but destroying the human race. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. What he ultimately discovers will prove far more astonishing than anything he'd either dreaded or hoped for.
About the Author
George Rippey Stewart (May 31, 1895 – August 22, 1980) was an American toponymist, a novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his only science fiction novel Earth Abides (1949), a post-apocalyptic novel, for which he won the first International Fantasy Award in 1951. It was dramatized on radio's Escape and inspired Stephen King's The Stand.
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
In this profound ecological fable, a mysterious plague has destroyed the vast majority of the human race. Isherwood Williams, one of the few survivors, returns from a wilderness field trip to discover that civilization has vanished during his absence. Eventually he returns to San Francisco and encou
This sweeping saga weaves a riveting tale about a young girl's battle with one of hell's minions determined to destroy her and those closest to her. This is the first volume in the Black or White Chronicles series relating stories of life in the Deep South during its most tumultuous times.
**The eighth novel in the beloved Mitford series, by the bestselling author of *At Home in Mitford* and *Somebody Safe with Somebody Good*** Millions of Americans have found Mitford to be a favorite home-away-from-home, and countless readers have long wondered what Christmas in Mitford would
Ànimes atuïdes (1921) és el segon volum de contes que publicà el doctor Josep Roig i Raventós. Es tracta d'un conjunt de relats dins del context del ruralisme de principis de segle XX. La seva filiació literària és clarament naturalista, però d’un naturalisme moralista i benpensant, amb un gust per