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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic post-apocalyptic tale of a futuristic world in the late 21st Century in the aftermath of a plague.

The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book describes a future Earth at the time of the late twenty-first century, ravaged by an unknown pandemic which quickly sweeps across the world. It also... Read Full Overview

Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, whose gothic style and progressive ideas have had a permanent influence on literary history. Daughter of political philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft,... Read Full Overview

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that... Read Full Overview

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that... Read Full Overview

From the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 roman clef takes place in the late 21st century, as England's last king abdicates and a charmed circle of idealistic political reformers plunges into... Read Full Overview

Taken from an ancient text found abandoned in a cave, The Last Man ends in 2100, "the last year of the world." A devastating worldwide plague has annihilated all of humanity except for one man, who chronicles the world's demise. This novel of apocalyptic horror, originally... Read Full Overview

El ltimo hombre en la tierra es una novela apocal ptica de ciencia ficci n escrita por Mary Shelley, publicada por primera vez en 1826. El libro narra la historia de un mundo futurista que ha sido arrasado por una plaga. La novela fue criticada duramente en su poca, y permaneci... Read Full Overview

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher... Read Full Overview

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A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that... Read Full Overview

Then the virus came, and made the world turn different, too.
Mary Shelley is best-known as the author of the Gothic novel Frankenstein. The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel. Lionel Verney is the last man alive on earth after a rapacious plague... Read Full Overview

From the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 roman clef takes place in the late twenty-first century, as England's last king abdicates and a charmed circle of idealistic political reformers plunges... Read Full Overview

The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown - having... Read Full Overview