367 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 1996 by W. Pickering.

ISBN:
978-1-85196-080-4
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Mary Shelley, the author of [Frankenstein][1], wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826. Its first person narrative tells the story of our world standing at the end of the twenty-first century and - after the devastating effects of a plague - at the end of humanity. In the book Shelley writes of weaving this story from a discovery of prophetic writings uncovered in a cave near Naples. The Last Man was made into a 2008 film.

[1]: openlibrary.org/works/OL450125W/Frankenstein

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Subjects

  • Twenty-first century -- Fiction.
  • End of the world -- Fiction.
  • Plague -- Fiction.