by John Wyndham · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140815306
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«Web» is the science fiction novel by John Wyndham, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (64 pages, in English).
An English lord gathers forty people to found a utopian community on a remote Pacific island. Among the chosen are the narrator and Camilla, an expert on plagues. On arrival, the group's radio is destroyed and several colonists die in strange circumstances; the inhabitants suspect something sinister lurks in the jungle.
Abridged edition, adapted by Joc Potter and Andy Hopkins for the Penguin Readers series (level 5, upper-intermediate). The original novel was published in 1979.
Aimed at students of English as a second language and adult literacy programmes.
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.
