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A stunning speculative novel about a small English village preparing of the end of the world.Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride is winning poultry-breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society. Thanks to that affiliation, Edgar becomes one of the first people to learn that the moon is on a collision course with the earth. Members of the society are sworn to secrecy, but eventually the moon begins to loom so large in the sky that the truth can no longer be denied. During these final days, Edgar writes what he calls “The Hopkins Manuscript”—a testimony juxtaposing the ordinary and extraordinary as the villagers dig trenches and play cricket before the end of days. First published in 1939, as the world was teetering on the brink of global war, R.C. Sherriff’s classic science fiction novel is a timely and powerful missive from the past that captures human nature in all its complexity.

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Author : R.C. Sherriff
★★★★☆ 4.3 from 5 stars (251 Reviews)
Langue : English
ISBN-10 : 1668003945
File size: 6 MB

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I am a sucker for a good end of the world story, so I was surprised I had never heard of The Hopkins Manuscript prior to a review in the New York Times this year. I found this book to be one of the better apocalyptic stories I’ve read.The Times review suggests it’s similar to Earth Abides, but it’s much more akin to On The Beach, as it explores what people go through when faced with the end of everything. In this case, we see it through the eyes of an extremely narcissistic man. Several reviews note how this was off-putting to them, but I found it quite entertaining, and frankly realistic. Similar to Don’t Look Up, it’s not hard to believe that some people would barely register the news of the end of the world, beyond how inconvenient it is to them continuing to go about their business. Whereas On The Beach was extremely somber and depressing throughout, Hopkins being baffled at how others weren’t focused on a poultry competition as the end neared, or how others didn’t recognize his assumed intellectual superiority added some much appreciated levity.And despite it being written over 80 years ago now, I found the story didn’t feel antiquated. Obviously a book published in 1939 that takes place in the mid-to-late 40’s wouldn’t include a WWII as we know it, but otherwise the small village setting and the loss of basic services after a global catastrophe means that not too much would be different from today. Of course, we have a much better scientific understanding of what would truly happen if the moon started to fall out of orbit (it would break up, not squish into an ocean), but it’s best not to let that ruin an otherwise very good take on the end of Western Civilization. The Hopkins Manuscript: A Novel Online ePUB download The Hopkins Manuscript is only sci fi in the same sense that Lord of the Flies might be considered a survival guide but I enjoyed the book immensely. Thought provoking, touching, and all too believable. The narrator is unconsciously humorous, admirable, irritating and lovable. PDF The Hopkins Manuscript: A Novel download ebook online You will Romberg this book and the story it tells long after you have finished it. Written with style and accuracy, it’s a great read! ePUB The Hopkins Manuscript: A Novel scarica ebook online It’s like reading something from another century. Well, it is from another century! The writing is antique and precious, but fascinating in it own right. A different take on survival after a cataclysm. It reeks of class and entitlement, and of a narrow view of society, but has value in its eccentricity. Download PDF The Hopkins Manuscript: A Novel SPOILERS. The narrator is an insufferable, self-centered bore, and the pacing of the book is preposterous--there are 29 chapters and nothing happens until chapter 20. I was looking forward to learning about his life in the aftermath, but all of that is crammed Cliff's notes style into the very end of the book. To my mind this isn't so much an apocalypse tale (The NY Times review calls it possibly the first), or even a dystopian tale, as it is a comedy of manners with the moon as the villian. I've read scores of these end-of-the-world books, good, bad an indifferent--this falls into the third category.