John Wyndham Livres

Lorsque Bill Masen se réveille dans son lit d'hôpital, après une semaine passée les yeux bandés, il pense avoir manqué le spectacle du siècle : une pluie d'éclats de comète qui a illuminé le ciel d'éclairs verdâtres. Il ne le sait pas encore mais son destin et celui de la planète entière viennent de basculer. En effet, si les bandages de Bill l'ont sauvé d'une cécité définitive, la quasi-totalité de l'humanité est devenue aveugle. De petits groupes tentent de s'organiser pour survivre mais c'est compter sans les triffides, ces mystérieuses plantes capables de se déplacer et qui semble bien décidées à profiter de la faiblesse des humains survivants pour les anéantir... Chef-d'œuvre de la science-fiction post-apocalyptique, Le jour des triffides a été adapté au cinéma sous le titre La révolte des triffides.

Contemporary / British EnglishThe island of Tanakuatua seems like heaven to the forty people who go there to create a new society. But soon they start to die in a horrible way. Something strange is in the forest. Two of the group decide to fight!

Selected for its cultural significance, this work contributes to the foundational knowledge of civilization. It offers insights that are essential for understanding historical and societal contexts, making it a valuable resource for scholars and readers interested in the evolution of human thought and culture.

An introduction and five early stories by this classic SF writer originally published in the 1930's under the name John Beynon Harris. The title story plus Derelict of Space, Child of Power, The Last Lunarians and The Puff-ball Menace.

This Longman edition of The Chrysalids is the only text available containing the novel with notes and activities written by a Caribbean author for the Caribbean. The exam practice questions have been written to match the new comparative style of question adopted in the prose section of the English B examination.

David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realize that his own son, his niece Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret aberration which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice- wait for eventual discovery or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands ... The Chrysalids is a post-nuclear story of genetic mutation in a devastated world, which tells of the lengths the intolerant will go to to keep themselves pure.

The study of men and masculinities incorporates some of the key debates in the social sciences today, particularly within cultural and media studies, and gender studies. This book explores the socio-historical and cultural formation, enactment and representation of masculinities in a range of sites. schovat popis

Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Then Matthew started doing things he couldn't do before, like counting in binary-code mathematics. So he told them about Chocky - the person who lived in his head.

For the ten short stories collected here, John Wyndham turns his imagination to, among other subjects, body-snatching, time-travel and mind-travel, and the the tricky business of interplanetary colonization.

In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed – except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant.