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Author : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Pages : 291 pages Publisher : Amazon Digital
Services Language : eng ISBN-10 : B00847OOMG ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first
published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague.
The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a
scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical
portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Mary Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; 30
August 1797 - 1 February 1851) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist,
essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein:
or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her
husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was
the political philosopher William Godwin, and her mother was the philosopher and
feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. Until the 1970s, Mary Shelley was known
