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The Last Man
The Last Man
Author: Mary Shelley
Set in an apocalyptic future ending in the year 2100, Shelley's 1826 novel concerns a plague that destroys almost all of humankind.  The plague leaves only one man alive, a young Englishman and a onetime delinquent, to fathom his fate.
ISBN-13: 9780553214369
ISBN-10: 0553214365
Publication Date: 9/1/1994
Pages: 499
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Publisher: Bantam
Book Type: Mass Market 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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