A jealous young man sets out to murder his rival, but a comet's strange green gas transforms the atmosphere overnight, dissolving greed and violence and ushering in a rational socialist utopia.
Books mentioned in In the Days of the Comet (1)
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: “If so, you will find them rendered with a note of hostile exaggeration by Dickens in "Bleak House," with a mingling of gross flattery and keen ridicule by Disraeli, who ruled among them accidentally by misunderstanding them and pleasing the court,…”