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The Chrysalids

by John Wyndham

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish
  • Content type: Fiction

Description

Description from SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog (opens in a new tab)

David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret abberation which would label them as mutants. But as David and Rosalind grow older it becomes more difficult to conceal their differences from the village elders. Soon they face a choice: wait for eventual discovery, or flee to the terrifying and mutable Badlands. . . The Chrysalids is a post-nuclear apocalypse story of genetic mutation in a devastated world and explores the lengths the intolerant will go to keep themselves pure

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

  • Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and sudoc matched “Telepathy” and “télépathie”. Retained metadata contains “Telepathy” in the subject metadata and “télépathie” in the subject metadata.

    • “Telepathy”· via Open Library
    • “télépathie”· via SUDOC — French university and research library union catalog
    • “Telepathy”· in subject
    • “télépathie”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 37 editions; 3 cataloged here.

Open Library record

1958Penguin BooksEnglish
  • 9780140013085
  • 0140013083
Borrowable

"This Penguin Essentials edition published 2018."

"First published by Michael Joseph 1955. Published in Penguin Books 1958. Reprinted with a new introduction in Penguin Classics 2000." [Verso de la page de titre]; 1 vol. ([XI]-[204] p.); 18 cm; couv. ill. en coul.

2018Penguin BooksEnglish
  • 9780241983928
Catalog record

SUDOC union-catalog record

1 vol. (200 p.); 20 cm; couv. ill. en coul.; Texte en anglais

2008Penguin BooksEnglish
  • 9780141032979
  • 0141032979
Catalog record

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Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 37 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1911334W
Edition coverage
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