The Hopkins Manuscript
1939 novel by R. C. Sherriff
The Hopkins Manuscript is a social-political dystopian novel published by R. C. Sherriff in 1939.[1] Originally titled An Ordinary Man, the novel was published with its present title by Victor Gollancz, then republished as a Pan paperback in 1958 under the title The Cataclysm. The book was further published by The Macmillan Company in 1963 and by Persephone Books in 2002.[2][3]
The story is set in England, where the main character, Edgar Hopkins, writes a narrative about a catastrophe in which the Moon collides with Earth, and his life afterward. The foreword has the perspective of an academic society 1,000 years in the future finding the manuscript as an historical document.[4]
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Works by R. C. Sherriff
- Journey's End (1928)
- Badger's Green (1930)
- St Helena (1936)
- Miss Mabel (1948)
- Home at Seven (1950)
- The White Carnation (1953)
- The Long Sunset (1955)
- The Telescope (1957)
- The Invisible Man (1933)
- One More River (1934)
- Dracula's Daughter (1936)
- The Road Back (1937)
- Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
- The Four Feathers (1939)
- Lady Hamilton (1941)
- This Above All (1942)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Stand By for Action (1942)
- Forever and a Day (1943)
- Odd Man Out (1947)
- Quartet (1948)
- No Highway in the Sky (1950)
- Trio (1950)
- The Dam Busters (1955)
- The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
- The Hopkins Manuscript (1939)
- The Long Sunset (1958)
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