A new plague arrives from the East, and London refuses to believe it until the doors start closing and the men begin to die. The Gosling family of suburban London and the idealist Jasper Thrale watch the city empty, and the survivors, mostly women, trek into the countryside with a hand-cart and must invent a new way of living.
A thoughtful 1913 disaster novel by the author of The Hampdenshire Wonder, and an early classic of British apocalyptic fiction. Download the free EPUB.