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The Last Man
The Last Man
Author: Mary Shelley
This apocalyptic tale by the author of Frankenstein envisions a future world devastated by plague. Misunderstood by contemporary readers, Mary Shelley's 1826 precursor to the science fiction novel has reemerged to critical acclaim. Its quasibiographical portraits of the author's Romantic-era cohorts, including Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780486471228
ISBN-10: 0486471225
Publication Date: 3/18/2010
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) is most famous for Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. A friend suggested her 1826 novel The Last Man was especially poignant during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you can ignore the Victorian-era obsession with facial characteristics and the casual assumptions of European, in particular British, superiority to the rest of the world, the novel does have some excellent, thought-provoking passages. https://muslimmediareview.blogspot.com/2021/02/quotes-from-mary-shelleys-last-man.html


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