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The Chrysalids

1955·199 pages·young adult

Fantasy Literary Fiction

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.

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The Chrysalids

Year

1955

Pages

199

Audience

young adult

Fantasy Literary Fiction

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A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of a community where the chances of breeding true are less than fifty per cent and where deviations are rooted out and destroyed as offences and abominations.

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