The Last Man - Mary Shelley - Books - - 9781711782911 - November 29, 2019
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Mary Shelley
The Last Man

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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 expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters. Mary Shelley states in the introduction that in 1818 she discovered, in the Sibyl's cave near Naples, a collection of prophetic writings painted on leaves by the Cumaean Sibyl. She has edited these writings into the current narrative, the first-person narrative of a man living at the end of the 21st century, commencing in 2073 and concluding in 2100. Despite the futuristic setting, the world of The Last Man appears to be relatively similar to the era in which it was written.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 29, 2019
ISBN13 9781711782911
Pages 406
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 23 mm   ·   594 g
Language English  

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