The second part of the audiobook will focus on the adventure of certain individuals set years later as they traverse a wild new world fraught with danger and wonder. It also details the eventual reclamation of nature as it slowly covers England in flora and fauna. It shows how the survivors returned to their baser instincts as a harsh world now looms over them. The first part of the story is a look back of the events after the end of civilization through the eyes of future historians.
After an unspecified event caused the death of millions of people, the remaining survivors are forced back into a medieval way of life and recount the struggle of humanity to survive in a hostile world devoid of all the aspects of modern life we take for granted today.
Richard Jefferies constructs the stories around the characters instead of the events that transpired that caused them to end up where they are during the start of the story. Published July 21, 2009, After London or Wild England uses the tropes of a classic post-apocalyptic tale. It situates After London in a tradition of mid-late Victorian texts that respond to the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace and responds to a host of other key social, political, and cultural issues of the period.AFTER LONDON, OR WILD ENGLAND by RICHARD JEFFERIES – A free audiobook This new critical edition provides one of the earliest examples of a global catastrophe novel that is part of a flowering of nineteenth-century science fiction. Of its time but also distinctively modern, After London can, in its uneasy expression of Victorian and post-Victorian anxieties about industrial development, urbanisation, natural resources, and climate, be regarded as one of the first novels of the Anthropocene. Imagining a mysterious natural catastrophe that plunges its people into a barbaric future, Jefferies remarkable novel drowns and destroys London and depicts a challenging ‘Wild England’ dominated by nature and filled with evolved animals and devolved humans. Richard Jefferies’ After London is uncanny and intriguing, an adventure story, quest romance, dystopia, and Darwinian novel rolled into one, but also a pioneering work of Victorian science fiction. A scholarly edition of a significant and exciting late Victorian science fiction novel
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