An instant classic upon its original publication in 1949 and winner of the first International Fantasy Award, 'Earth Abides' ranks with 'On the Beach' and 'Riddley Walker' as one of our most provocative and finely wrought post-apocalyptic works of literature. Its impact is still fresh, its lessons timeless. By the American historian, novelist and English professor, George Rippey Stewart (1895-1980).