The last man

Jean-Baptiste-François-Xavier Cousin de Grainville

Original title: Le dernier homme

first published 1976 Kessinger Publishing, 2003 paperback 436 pages

Lost race and adult fantasy fiction

"Originally published in French in 1805, The Last Man is a powerful story of the demise of the human race. Drawing on the traditional account in Revelations, The Last Man was the first end-of-the-world story in future fiction. As the first secular apocalypse story, The Last Man served as the departure point for many other speculative fictions of this type throughout the 19th century, including works by Shelley, Flamm...

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Le Dernier Homme edition · 2010 · Payot · 9782228905503
The Last Man edition · 2003 · Wesleyan · 220 pages · 9780819565495
Last Man paperback · 2003 · Kessinger Publishing · 436 pages · 9780766162624
The last man edition · 1978 · Arno Press · 204 pages · 9780405109928

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