Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World

Title: Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell about the End of the World Author: Dorian Lynskey ISBN: 9780593317099 Publisher: Pantheon Published: 2025 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Social Science 1623435 Publisher Description: A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with the end of the world. As Dorian Lynskey writes, "People have been contemplating the end of the world for millennia." In this immersive and compelling cultural history, Lynskey reveals how religious prophecies of the apocalypse were secularized in the early 19th century by Lord Byron and Mary Shelley in a time of dramatic social upheaval and temporary climate change, inciting a long tra