by John Wyndham · Burlington · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789963479405
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«The Chrysalids» is the post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham, published by Burlington Books in paperback (150 pages).
In a future where society has regressed to a rural and religious way of life after devastation, the community pursues and destroys those who show deviations. A group of young people with telepathic abilities must hide their gift to avoid persecution and exile, while seeking a place in a world that rejects difference.
This edition belongs to the LECTURAS series by Burlington Books, a collection of graded readers for secondary school.
Aimed at 4th-year ESO students as supplementary reading in English class.
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 in Sky Max under its original title.
