479 pages
English language
Published Jan. 21, 1998 by Oxford University Press.
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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.
Subjects
- Twenty-first century -- Fiction
- End of the world -- Fiction
- Plague -- Fiction