After London

Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by John Constable, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and John Martin. England after an unnamed catastrophe: London a poisoned swamp, the Thames dammed into an inland sea, and the survivors living in feudal fragments among the ruins. Jefferies published it in 1885, at the very start of post-apocalyptic fiction, and William Morris read it with open delight....