The Chrysalids

Author: John Wyndham

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780141181479
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin
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  • : 0.159
  • : August 2000
  • : 196mm X 129mm X 13mm
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Barcode 9780141181479
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Description

Takes reader into the heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty percent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as abominations.

Author description

John Wyndham was born in 1903. After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921. Careers which he tried included farming, law, commercial art, and advertising, and he first started writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army. In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including "The Kraken Wakes", "The Chrysalids" and "The Midwich Cuckoos".