The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham literary fiction The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regarded

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The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham literary fiction The Palm-Wine Drinkard is regardedThe most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen one of the lucky few to keep his sight finds himself trapped in a London jammed with