The Last Man

Mary Shelley

earliest edition we have, 1985 CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017 paperback 452 pages

Oxford world's classics

Mary Shelley, the author of [*Frankenstein*], 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 int...

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The Last Man edition · 2025 · Mondadori · 561 pages · 9788804796558
Last Man edition · 2024 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780143137900
Last Man, by the Author of Frankenstein edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781019400920
Last Man edition · 2023 · Mattessich, Stefan · 9780578955582
Last Man edition · 2023 · Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. · 9781454948148
Last Man, by the Author of Frankenstein edition · 2023 · Creative Media Partners, LLC · 9781021188182
Last Man edition · 2023 · Mattessich, Stefan · 9798986210452
Last Man edition · 2023 · Mattessich, Stefan · 9780578951799
Last Man edition · 2023 · Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. · 9781454948131
Last Man edition · 2022 · Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 9780393887822
Last Man edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798404606638
Last Man Annotated edition · 2022 · Independently Published · 9798448130014

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