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Genre/Form: | Apocalyptic fiction Fiction Apocalyptic fantasies |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; Anne McWhir |
ISBN: | 1551110768 9781551110769 |
OCLC Number: | 35931300 |
Description: | xliii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Note on the text -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: a brief chronology -- The last man -- Map of Lionel Verney's world -- Appendix A. Some contemporaries of the Last Man -- Appendix B. The sibyl's cave -- Appendix C. Versions of plague -- Appendix D. "The web of the mind" -- Appendix E. Mary Shelley's poems -- Appendix F. Contemporary comments on and reviews of The Last Man -- Appendix G. Postscript -- Works cited/Recommended reading. |
Series Title: | Broadview literary texts. |
Responsibility: | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; edited with an introduction by Anne McWhir. |
Abstract:
A novel, first published in 1826, set in the 21st century, when England is a republic governed by a ruling elite. The narrator, an outsider introduced to the circle, tells a story of tragic, complicated love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.
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