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Deluge is a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright.In the novel, a series of tremors creates a global flood that destroys all civilization save for a few areas of the English Midlands that remain above water. It follows Martin Webster, a lawyer who loses Read More..

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Description	Deluge is a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright.In the novel, a series of tremors creates a global flood that destroys all civilization save for a few areas of the English Midlands that remain above water. It follows Martin Webster, a lawyer who loses his wife and children. His companion, Claire Arlington, is an athlete and one of the few women to survive the flood. Their love affair is complicated when Helen, Martin's wife, turns out not to be dead after all. It is one of the earliest examples of post-apocalyptic science fiction, it is also classified as a scientific romance.Wright used the metaphor of the flood and the aftermath to comment critically upon 1920s British society at the time. A movie version made in Hollywood, very loosely based upon the book, but instead set in New York City was released in 1933. The film was well received in the United States and granted Wright considerable financial success.Storm Jameson praised Deluge on its original publication in the magazine London Calling, comparing Deluge toCicely Hamilton's post-holocaust novel Theodore Savage.Brian Stableford,"Introduction" to Deluge, Wesleyan University Press, 2003ISBN 0819566608, (p. i-lviii).Deluge also influenced Jameson's novel of a Britain devastated by floods, The World Ends (1937, as by William Lamb).Deluge was Wright's first bestseller both in the United States and in Wright's native United Kingdom, the success of the novel allowed Wright to pursue writing full-time
Description	Deluge is a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright.In the novel, a series of tremors creates a global flood that destroys all civilization save for a few areas of the English Midlands that remain above water. It follows Martin Webster, a lawyer who loses his wife and children. His companion, Claire Arlington, is an athlete and one of the few women to survive the flood. Their love affair is complicated when Helen, Martin's wife, turns out not to be dead after all. It is one of the earliest examples of post-apocalyptic science fiction, it is also classified as a scientific romance.Wright used the metaphor of the flood and the aftermath to comment critically upon 1920s British society at the time. A movie version made in Hollywood, very loosely based upon the book, but instead set in New York City was released in 1933. The film was well received in the United States and granted Wright considerable financial success.Storm Jameson praised Deluge on its original publication in the magazine London Calling, comparing Deluge toCicely Hamilton's post-holocaust novel Theodore Savage.Brian Stableford,"Introduction" to Deluge, Wesleyan University Press, 2003ISBN 0819566608, (p. i-lviii).Deluge also influenced Jameson's novel of a Britain devastated by floods, The World Ends (1937, as by William Lamb).Deluge was Wright's first bestseller both in the United States and in Wright's native United Kingdom, the success of the novel allowed Wright to pursue writing full-time

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Name	Deluge
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Authors	S. Fowler Wright
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Genre	Disaster
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Pages	305 pp
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Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Publisher	Cosmopolitan Book Corporation
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