- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Penguin/Michael Joseph (1985)
- ISBN-10: 0140013083
- ISBN-13: 978-0140013085
- ASIN: B002GJ4OWI
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
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#226,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #21 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Audiobooks > Cassette > Fantasy
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When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange because it began before I even knew what a city was. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Excerpt | Back Cover
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Atmosphere,
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This review is from: The Chrysalids (Paperback)
I read this book for the first time in highschool years ago and re-read it again since.What most impressed me was the author's ability to set up atmosphere in the novel. I still to this day, after years between readings remember images I formed while reading the novel. Grass between the toes, the nuclear wastes, the way the children formed telepathic images etc... One thing that I remember clearly is how the novel was like a breath of fresh air, clean and smooth. There are no frilly edges and there is no attempt by the author to make the book flashy. This makes the book pure and adds to the impact of the story. As an overview, there are a group of children who are living in Eastern Canada after some type of holocaust (this is never much of a point in the book... no one has memories of it). Their society is strongly anti-mutant with a very strict set of rules as to what is "normal" and what isn't. All of this children are normal looking but are telepathic and form a click of just a small number. The book is their story of growing up and existing in this paranoid and highly dogmatic society without being discovered and banished or killed. A definite classic in Science Fiction circles.
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My 100-word book review,
By A. J. Cull (London, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chrysalids (Paperback)
The Chrysalids has my vote for best novel by John Wyndham; I loved it as a teenager and still find it an excellent story, as fresh and evocative as ever. Set in the future after an apocalyptic war has ravaged the earth, this is about a group of unusual children, who find themselves dangerously at odds with the fundamentalist community into which they have been born. As well as being a tale of adventure and survival, The Chrysalids is also about difference, and what happens when society draws an arbitrary line between normal and deviant. Watch Thou for the Mutant!
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING NOVEL IN THE WORLD.,
By grace (CAN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Chrysalids (Paperback)
This was a novel study in our English class. The first day I got it... i thought, "it's probably another boring classic book" but i read the first chapter and i couldn't stop. i read it for one whole day! it was so interesting. it's one of the best novel i've read. i even borrowed some books by John Wyndham the "Chocky" and "The Day of The Triffids." But nothing could beat the "Chrysalids." I can't believe some grade nine students who reviewed this book found it horrible and boring. i feel that their entitled to their opinions but i still think they should read it again when they've matured enough. I'm sure they will change their minds.
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