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A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of posionous gas has devastated the world. As Adam Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet. Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. The Purple Cloud tells the grandly bleak story of Adam Jeffson: the first man to reach the North Pole and the last man left alive on earth. A sweet-smelling, deadly cloud of poisonous gas has devastated the world, and as Jeffson travels the stricken globe in search of human life, he slowly succumbs to madness, and unleashes fire and destruction on his planet. John Sutherland's introduction discusses M. P. Shiel's dissolute life, the originality of his book and its place within the context of 'last man' novels. This edition also includes a chronology, notes and further reading

Who reads The Purple Cloud (Penguin Classics)?

Author

Shiel, M P; Sutherland, John

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141967585

Category

science

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.9 / 5 (188 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14