One comment indicated the reader thought it was a satire but I didn't get a sense of that. In our book club, we voted this the best book of the year, and deservedly so. Society's reaction--surprisingly realistic. Please try again. The Hopkins Manuscript. Sherriff’s hilarious, dystopian novel The Hopkins Manuscript for the Penguin Classics Club. Copies of these documents should also be forwarded to the editorial office. And then the sad ending. The main protagonist is a middle aged chicken breeder who funds a telescope with his small private income and he discovers that the lunar astronomers have noticed a movement of the moon. I had never heard of RC Sherriff, but someone suggested I might like the Hopkins Manuscript and then I noticed that he had been a screenwriter for No Highway, as well as other good films. N2 - This article argues that a significant tonal shift occurs in British disaster literature after World War Two. flag. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. Buy The Hopkins Manuscript by R. C. Sherriff from Waterstones today! The play's enormous success enabled Sherriff to become a full-time writer. Please try again. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT. AU - Woodward, Jennifer. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2020. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Sci-fi novels vary in type, and I have read only a few over the years, but the only kind of Sci-fi I have any interest in, is the type which is set in a recognisable world, where unexpected, unworldly or fantastic events impact seriously upon that world and the people in it. http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/the-hopkins-manuscript.html, "Publisher Gollancz: Books Published in 1939", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hopkins_Manuscript&oldid=1010493703, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 5 March 2021, at 19:35. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. Previous article Next article. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Then I began to understand it as a penetrating analysis of a man who seemed very ordinary but finally rose somewhat beyond ordinariness. I read it six or seven times thereafter. The foreword has the perspective of an academic society 1,000 years in the future finding the manuscript as an historical document.[4]. Comments Off on BOOK REVIEW: THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT by R C SHERRIFF This sci-fi tale, originally published on the eve of WW2, deserves to be much better known. This is no triffid terror novel but an interesting apocalypse story. Witty, poignant and a very good description of country life in the 1930's, this book will make you both laugh and cry. Written in 1939 as the world was teetering on the brink of global war, R. C. Sherriff's tragicomic novel is a masterly work of science fiction, and a … PREFACE BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK. THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT. Something went wrong. Unable to add item to List. It is called the Hopkins manuscript because it was written by one Edgar Hopkins – and he takes over the story once the novel proper starts. Prev column. This article about a speculative fiction novel of the 1930s is a stub. There was a problem loading your book clubs. An image of Pauline Hopkins, reproduced from The Digital Colored American Magazine, coloredamerican.org. It is the only surviving account of daily life in the months leading up to, and after the disaster. But this is not science fiction in the mode of H G Wells's The War of the Worlds; it is a novel about human nature. It is a science fiction novel, and centres around a ‘Cataclysm’ of apocalyptic scale. I was looking for novels that were of a similar story to The Day of the Triffids. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. The essay must be accompanied by the NIH publishing agreement and manuscript cover sheet and the Johns Hopkins University Press publishing agreement for U.S. Government employees, available from the editorial office. Sherriff’s The Hopkins Manuscript (1939) and Transformative Disaster Fiction. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2014. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Excellent, recommended. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. [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 the Earth, and his life afterward. Buy a cheap copy of The Hopkins Manuscript book by R.C. 'Spectacular, skilled and moving. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. In The Hopkins Manuscript we watch through his eyes as the moon veers off course, draws slowly closer to the earth, and finally crashes into it on May 3rd 1946. It was written on the eve of the Second World War, in its own way, an apocalypse. First edition. This is the silly bit. The Hopkins Manuscript is a good yarn, and very witty, especially if you have experience of the English temperament. And always, it was a remarkable commentary on how human beings cope, or fail to cope, with extraordinarily difficult challenges. Please wait. I have read this book so many times the current copy is falling apart and I'm delighted that Persephone Books are re-issuing it. View all articles on this page. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2014. Match text View 0 text corrections for this article. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. [1-5] 6-352, original medium blue cloth, spine panel stamped in dark blue. Mr Sherriff has described the life in the lat 1930s with clarity. I loved the story, although with this and the Day of the Triffids, can I ever look at the night sky again? Buy The Hopkins Manuscript (Penguin Modern Classics) by Sherriff, R. C. from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Then there is the most horrifying announcement at the Lunar Society that the moon will collide with the earth in a matter of months. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! PY - 2017/7/26. He is remembered for his plays, the screenplays for the films The Invisible Man (1933), Goodbye Mr Chips (1933) and The Dam Busters (1955), and the novel The Hopkins Manuscript (1939). I searched in vain on the web for an analysis of how scientifically accurate this book is. Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2005, "The moon falls into the Atlantic ocean and the majority of humanity survive to start a war over the acquisition of new territory -- the point of such novels is not scientific accuracy, but a comment on contemporary society or humanity in general. Please try again. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The plot moves along well, the imagery is good, and it is a book I will reread more slowly now that I know the outcome. I am in the process of reading all of Sherriff's novels and find them to be compelling reading in their clarity and tempo. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. This is a must-read book. The moon's brightness--mixed. A "lost classic" that everyone can enjoy. In The Hopkins Manuscript, Sherriff presents a dark vision that is both a reflection on humanity’s attitudes in the aftermath of The Great War and a portent of things to come when one considers its publication date of 1939—the year World War II began. When he learned through his membership in the Lunar Society that the moon would collide with earth, his gamut of emotions seemed reasonable. Yet much of this survival tale seems prescient, and the accompanying highs and lows of human nature depicted could just as easily be applied to the WWII experience in Britain. ", Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2019. The manuscript is written in proto-Romance - ancestral to today's Romance languages including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, Catalan and Galician. [1-5] 6-352, original medium blue cloth, spine panel stamped in dark blue. See guidelines for writing about novels. The Hopkins Manuscript is a social-political dystopian novel published by R. C. Sherriff during 1939. Hopkins is interested in astronomy and part of the Lunar Society – which is where he … Free shipping over $10. A classic catastrophe novel depicting survival after the earth is struck by the moon. Then it came on to me as an insight into 20th century politics and politicians. My guess: the moon collapsing--totally unrealistic. My father adored it. I grew up on this book. Wow I am on a roll discovering great forgotten science fiction! Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. Y1 - 2017/7/26. Indeed the fact that The Hopkins Manuscript was published in 1939 means that Sheriff could have only been aware of the rumblings leading up to WWII. The reverse colonisation that starts and finishes the story is an interesting contrast with contemporary circumstances, its better than loads of contemporary disaster novels and although not as fast-paced its all the better for it. It is far better than just "one more sci-fi book." 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