Binding: Paperback
Description: The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race my companions extinct before me. Mary Shelley Journal (May 1824). Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death. It is the twenty - first century and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite one of whom Adrian Earl of Windsor has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider Lionel Verney narrates the story a tale of complicated tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman clef for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: The Last Man
Author(s): Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft, Paley, Morton D. (Professor Of English, Professor Of English, University Of California, Berkeley)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199552351
Pages: 512 Pages
Publication Date: 10/15/2008
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Classic Fiction