Can I read The Day of the Triffids on EtoBox?

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, Marcel Battin, Cover by Andy Bridge is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Day of the Triffids about?

The classic postapocalyptic thriller with “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare” ( The Times , London). Triffids are odd, interesting little plants that grow in everyone’s garden. Triffids are no more than mere curiosities—until an event occurs that alters human life forever. What seems to be a spectacular meteor shower turns into a bizarre, green inferno that blinds everyone and renders humankind helpless. What follows is even stranger: spores from the inferno cause the triffids to suddenly take on a life of their own. They become large, crawling vegetation, with the ability to uproot and roam about the country, attacking humans and inflicting pain and agony. William Masen somehow managed to escape being blinded in the inferno, and now after leaving the hospital, he is one of the few survivors who can see. And he may be the only one who can save his species from chaos and eventual extinction . . . With more than a million copies sold, The Day of the Triffids is a landmark of speculative fiction, and “an outstanding and entertaining novel” ( Library Journal ). “A thoroughly English apocalypse, it rivals H. G. Wells in conveying how the everyday invaded by the alien wou

Who reads The Day of the Triffids?

Author

John Wyndham, Marcel Battin, Cover by Andy Bridge

Publisher

Rosetta Books

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780795302824

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science Fiction, Fiction, Horror

Rating

4 / 5 (584 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14