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Stewart 18951980 was a professor of english at the university of california. The story is set in the united states in the 1940s in berkeley, california and told by a character, isherwood williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead. One survivor, strangely immune to the effects of the epidemic, ventures forward to experience a world without man. If you do not want to do what they wish, they make you. Stewart has 39 books on goodreads with 58629 ratings. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading earth abides. The first edition of the novel was published in 1949, and was written by george r.
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