The Last Man (Bantam Classic) by Mary Shelley - 1994-09-01

Bantam Classics, 1994-09-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 6x4x0. Cover shows some creasing and rubbing wear. Interior pages are clean throughout. Binding is secure.

A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" The reprint of a neglected novel by the author of Frankenstein takes place in the twenty-first century after a plague leaves only one man alive, a young Englishman and a onetime delinquent, to fathom his fate.- Mary Shelley's third published novel, The Last man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley's treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving. If The Last Man is in some sense a `conventional' text of the period, it is also intensely personal in its origin; Shelley refers in her journal to the last man as her alter ego, "the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me." The Novel thus develops out of and contributes to a network of stories and ideas in which fantasy, allusion,… Read More

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