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The Last Man

by Mary Shelley
language: english
Publisher: Oxford University Press, August of 2008 ‧
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`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 a 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.

The Last Man

by Mary Shelley

Property Description
ISBN: 9780199552351
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: August of 2008
Language: English
Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 21 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 512
Format: Book
Collection: Oxford World'S Classics
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > Fiction
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780199552351

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) nasceu no seio de uma família intelectual britânica. Foi romancista, dramaturga, ensaísta, biógrafa, escritora de viagens e editora das obras do seu marido, o poeta romântico e filósofo Percy Bysshe Shelley, com quem casou em 1816. A sua obra mais relevante, Frankenstein, é considerada um dos primeiros exemplos no género da ficção científica.

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