Deluge

1927 Wright, S[ydney] Fowler (1874-1965). Deluge. London: Fowler Wright. Rpt. Ed. Michael Stableford. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003 with the editor’s “Introduction” (xi-lviii, 307-318), notes on the text (318-22), and a “Bibliography” (323-29). U.S. ed. New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1928. Serialized in the Sunday Express (June - July 1931). Rpt. as Deluge: A Novel of Global Warming. Rockville, Maryland: Wildside Press/The Borgo Press, 2010; and as Deluge; a Romance, and Dawn. New York: Arno Press, 1975, which reprints the New York Cosmopolitan Press editions separately paged. PSt

For an unexplained reason, the oceans of the world flood all low-lying land and destroys contemporary civilization. The survivors discover that their reliance of technology and industry has deprived them of the skills need to survive. Those who do survive struggle to create a better life based on community and traditional skills and practices. 1929 Wright is a sequel. A film written by John Goodrich (1887-1937) and Warren Duff (1904-73) and directed by Felix Edison Feist (1910-65) that moved the action from England to New York City was released in 1933. The author used Fowler Wright as his surname, and some of his descendants use Fowler-Wright, but all libraries use Wright.