The last man
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-18512024
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Written while Mary Shelley was in a self-imposed lockdown after the loss of her husband and children, and in the wake of intersecting crises including the climate-changing Mount Tambora eruption and a raging cholera outbreak, 'The Last Man' (1826) is an early work of climate fiction and a prophetic depiction of environmental change. Set in the late twenty-first century, a deadly pandemic leaves a lone survivor, and follows his journey through a post-apocalyptic world, devoid of humanity and reclaimed by nature.
Main title:
The last man / Mary Shelley.
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Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2024.
Collation:
592 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780143137900 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
BRN:
2717031
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