by John Wyndham · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582534674
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«The Midwich Cuckoos» is the science fiction novel by John Wyndham, published by Longman in paperback (88 pages, in English).
In the peaceful English village of Midwich, the appearance of a mysterious silver object leaves all the residents unconscious for a day. Upon waking with no apparent harm, they discover that all the women in the village are pregnant; the enigma becomes a disturbing threat to the community.
1971 edition, adapted and simplified by Michael West for the New Method Supplementary Readers series (level 3).
Intended for students of English as a foreign language (ESL/EFL) who want to approach a science fiction classic through graded reading.
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.
