Catastrophe - A Short Story Collection: Stories about the end of the world

Written by Jack London, Herbert C Ridout, C J Cutcliffe Hyne and 5 more

Narrated by David Shaw-Parker, Christopher Ragland and Mark Rice-Oxley

‘The End of the World is Nigh’ has been seen, heard and quoted ad infinitum all of our lives. In the comfort zone of our own arrogance and the resources that we humans have at our disposal it seems we are both inviolable and invincible. All is safe. We are in control.

But Nature has a way of sending earthquakes, eruptions, fires and flood, and much else besides, at the most inopportune times and, in these more modern days, with increasing frequency and extremes.

In this volume our classic authors conjure up all sorts of damnations and destructions in literary assaults testing our will to survive and our ingenuity to overcome situations where the outlook is bleak at best and the total extinction of us at worse.

1 - Catastrophe - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction

2 - The Unparallelled Invasion by Jack London

3 - The Freezing of London by Herbert C Ridout

4 - London's Danger by C J Cutcliffe Hyne

5 - Into the Sun by Robert Duncan Milne

6 - The Cloud-Men by Owen Oliver

7 - The Dust of Death by Fred M White

8 - The End of the World by Simon Newcomb

9 - Within An Ace of the End of the World by Robert Barr

10 - The World's Last Cataclysm by Robert Duncan Milne

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jun 6, 2023
• ISBN: 9781835477014

Jack London

Jack London was born in San Francisco in 1876, and was a prolific and successful writer until his death in 1916. During his lifetime he wrote novels, short stories and essays, and is best known for ‘The Call of the Wild’ and ‘White Fang’.