AFTER LONDON

Sinopsis de AFTER LONDON

2017 Reprint of 1980 Edition  Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition software   Originally published in 1885 Jefferies39s novel can be seen as an early example of postapocalyptic fiction  A sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England the countryside reverts to nature and the few survivors to a quasimedieval way of life The book has two parts The first The Relapse into Barbarism is the account by some later historian of the fall of civilization and its consequences with a loving description of nature reclaiming England fields becoming overrun by forest domesticated animals running wild roads and towns becoming overgrown the hated London reverting to lake and poisonous swampland The second part Wild England is largely a straightforward adventure set many years later in the wild landscape and society here too Jefferies was setting an example for the genre but the opening section despite some improbabilities has been much admired for its rigor and compelling narrative 
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