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The reprint of a neglected novel by the author of Frankenstein takes place in the twenty-first century, after a plague leaves only one man alive, a young Englishman and a onetime delinquent, to fathom his fate. Reprint.
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" "The Last Man" created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley''s] most interesting, if not her most consummate work." -- Muriel Spark. " A fascinating . . . novel-romance on a timely subject." -- "Studies in English Literature," " An absorbing roman a clef, [it] develops one of the major themes of romantic art, that of spiritual isolation, and . . . treats it in a unique way." -- "The Year''s Work in English Studies,"
"A fascinating . . . novel-romance on a timely subject."--"Studies in English Literature"
"An absorbing roman a clef, [it] develops one of the major themes of romantic art, that of spiritual isolation, and . . . treats it in a unique way."--"The Year''s Work in English Studies"
""The Last Man" created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work."--Muriel Spark--Muriel Spark
The Last Man created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work. Muriel Spark--Muriel Spark"
"The Last Man created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work."--Muriel Spark--Muriel Spark
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"A fascinating . . . novel-romance on a timely subject."--"Studies in English Literature"
"An absorbing roman a clef, [it] develops one of the major themes of romantic art, that of spiritual isolation, and . . . treats it in a unique way."--"The Year''s Work in English Studies"
""The Last Man" created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work."--Muriel Spark--Muriel Spark
The Last Man created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work. Muriel Spark--Muriel Spark"
"The Last Man created an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel. . . . [Mary Shelley's] most interesting, if not her most consummate work."--Muriel Spark--Muriel Spark
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- PublisherBantam Classic & Loveswept
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0553214365
- ISBN 13 9780553214369
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. A tight, clean and unmarked copy-" The reprint of a neglected novel by the author of Frankenstein takes place in the twenty-first century, after a plague leaves only one man alive, a young Englishman and a onetime delinquent, to fathom his fate.- Mary Shelley's third published novel, The Last man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley's treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving. If The Last Man is in some sense a `conventional' text of the period, it is also intensely personal in its origin; Shelley refers in her journal to the last man as her alter ego, "the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me." The Novel thus develops out of and contributes to a network of story and idea in which fantasy, allusion, convention and autobiography are densely interwoven. This new version of the first edition (1826) sets out to provide not only a thoroughly annotated text, but also contextual materials to help the reader acquire knowledge of the intellectual and literary milieu out of which the novel emerged. Appendices include material on `the last man' as early nineteenth-century hero, texts from the debate initiated by Malthus in 1798 about the adequacy of food supply to sustain human population, various accounts of outbreaks of plague, and Shelley's poems representing her feelings after the death of her husband. The Last Man reverberates particularly strongly for the late twentieth-century reader, not only because of its millennial overtones but also because of its parallels between the plague that Shelley depicts and the AIDS epidemic of our own time. Overall, it is a novel that rival's Frankenstein in the rich profusion of ideas it gives rise to in the reader.". Seller Inventory # 018354
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