Book

The Doom of the Great City

Being the Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942

William Delisle Hay

1880

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Political cartoon of "Old King Coal" smoking a pipe creating the London fog.

Bad Air in William Delisle Hay’s 'The Doom of the Great City' (1880)

Deadly fogs, moralistic diatribes, debunked medical theory in what is considered to be the first modern tale of urban apocalypse.

by Brett Beasley via The Public Domain Review on September 30, 2015

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