The End of the World: An Annotated Bibliography

The portentous title of this book, The End of the World: An Annotated Bibliography, is surely a title to end all titles! How can one possibly, one might ask, write about the end of the world until the world has ended? Who would be there to write it, or read it? A logical impossibility. Well, 3,482 books are listed here, and that’s excluding scientific works on eco‐disasters, planets colliding and the sun growing cold, even “hundreds of other titles included elsewhere”, so obviously I’m wrong! “What the works in this collection have in common is that all are convinced the...