The Last Man
Published on 20. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
496 pages
978-1-4549-4813-1 (ISBN)
Description
One of the first dystopian novels ever written, The Last Man traces the impact of an unstoppable pandemic as it slowly overtakes the world. Beginning in the year 2073, the story follows Lionel Vesey-the titular last man-and his circle of friends as the disease creeps from continent to continent and erodes the foundations of civilization. Published in 1826, after the death of Shelley's husband, her stepsister, and her two children, The Last Man is both an eerily accurate story about humanity wrestling with disaster and a moving fable about surviving personal grief.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4549-4813-1 (9781454948131)
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Mary Shelley (1797-1851) was the author of five novels and numerous works of short fiction, though she is best known for Frankenstein. The daughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley was steeped in the progressive ideas of the early-19th-century British Romantic era.