{"product_id":"9781435132535","title":"The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eA century-and-more ago, while some people pondered the pinnacle that civilization had attained, others worried how it would come crashing down. Many of the era’s best writers gave shape to those fears in wildly speculative stories that envisioned unthinkable fates and spectacular dooms for our planet and its people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e collects twenty-one classic stories and poems from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in which the Earth’s end times erupt in fire, frost, flood, famine—and worse. Dramatic, tragic, exhilarating, and transcendent, the provocative stories in this volume offer thrilling accounts of global catastrophes, natural disasters, science run amok, and shocking cataclysms as only the most imaginative writers could conceive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDarkness\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003cb\u003eLord Byron\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFor the Akhoond\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003cb\u003eAmbrose Bierce\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Star\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003cb\u003eH.G. Wells\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003cb\u003eGeorge C. Wallis\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFinis \u003c\/i\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Lillie Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Plague\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003cb\u003eJack London\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Poison Belt\u003c\/i\u003e by \u003cb\u003eSir Arthur Conan Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Fall River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127647027440,"sku":"9781435132535","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781435132535_p0.jpg?v=1769903987","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781435132535","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}