{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 160 pages Published 1954 RosettaBooks (2011) Masterworks of Science Fiction Robert Neville has witnessed the end of the world. The entire popula
I Am Legend
β Scribed by Matheson, Richard
- Book ID
- 107681617
- Publisher
- RosettaBooks
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780795315640
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β¦ Synopsis
Robert Neville has witnessed the end of the world. The entire population has been obliterated by a vampire virus. Somehow, Neville survived. He must now struggle to make sense of everything that has happened and learn to protect himself against the vampires who hunt him constantly. He must, because perhaps there is nothing else human left.
I Am Legend was a major influence in horror and brought a whole new thematic concept to apocalyptic literature. Several humanistic and emotional themes in this book blend the horror genre with traditional fiction: we see Neville as an emotional person, and observe as he suffers bouts of depression, dips into alcoholism and picks up his strength again to fight the vampiric bacteria that has infected (and killed off) most of humankind. Neville soon meets a woman, Ruth, (after three years alone), who seems to be uninfected and a lone survivor. The two become close and he learns from Ruth that the infected have learned to fight the disease...
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### Amazon.com Review One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, *I Am Legend* regularly appears on the "10 Best" lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science fiction (for although written in 1954, t
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstrosities