The Day of the TriffidsThe Day of the Triffids is the most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masenone of the lucky few to keep his sightfinds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs