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The Last Man
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Mary Shelley, the author of *Frankenstein* (opens in a new tab), 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.
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Edition identifiers ISBN-13 9781539514800
Subjects
- Fiction
- Plague
- Twenty-first century
- End of the world
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Fiction, fantasy, general
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- English literature
- Twenty-first century -- Fiction
- End of the world -- Fiction
- Plague -- Fiction
- Long Now Manual for Civilization