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The Last Man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Description for The Last Man
Paperback. Editor(s): Paley, Morton D. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Weight
350g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199552351
SKU
V9780199552351
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About Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Morton D. Paley is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-editor of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly.
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