Download or read book The Purple Cloud written by Matthew Phipps Shiel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheil's free-flowing and persuasive style of writing produces a convincing portrait of Adam Jefferson -- a man who, upon returning alone from an expedition to the North Pole, learns that a world-wide catastrophe has left him the last man on Earth.