The last man /

A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, 'The Last Man' is Mary Shelley's most important novel after 'Frankenstein'. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the futu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 (Author)
Other Authors:	Paley, Morton D. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:	Oxford world's classics.
Subjects:	Electronic books. Dystopias.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, 'The Last Man' is Mary Shelley's most important novel after 'Frankenstein'. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.
Item Description:	Previously issued in print: 1994.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xxviii, 479 pages).
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780191921759 (ebook) :
DOI:	10.1093/owc/9780199552351.001.0001