The Day of the Triffids, John WyndhamThe most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen one of the lucky few to keep his sight finds himself trapped in a London jammed with

" Criticism reprints six central contemporary reviews of the novel and six biographical and interpretive modern essays by Millicent Bell

Lauren Groff brings the reader into a physical world that is at once domestic and wild—a place where the hazards of the natural world lie waiting to pounce

a city that has been destroyed and rebuilt

Frame the Weim

It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest

the Russian weapons supplier whose global network has changed the way modern warfare is fought

What stories does St John’s Cathedral hold

run-down graveyards in which partridge-fighting has drawn crowds for hundreds of years to the exquisite palaces of the old city which now lie empty and crumbling

The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police

irritated by its popularity at the expense of his artistic intentions

they had to be deemed innocent in the Judgment Hall

And danger and death will surround that fortune for years to come