A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. With portraits of Percy Shelley and Byron, it expresses a reaction against their brand of Romanticism by demonstrating the failure of art and imagination to save the human race.
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A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague. With portraits of Percy Shelley and Byron, it expresses a reaction against their brand of Romanticism by demonstrating the failure of art and imagination to save the human race.
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Add this copy of The Last Man to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Oxford/New York. 1994. Oxford University Press. 1st Oxford World's Classics Paperback edition. Damaged' Stamp On Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Wrappers. 0192831526. Edited & With An Introduction by Morton D. Paley. 479 pages. paperback. Cover illustration is a detail from 'The Old Man and Death', 1773, by Joseph Wright. keywords: Literature England Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-‘The last man! Yes. I may well describe that solitary beings 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 Percy'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. inventory #24876.
Add this copy of The Last Man to cart. $15.87, good condition, Sold by Hay-on-Wye Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hereford, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1999 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light scratches/marks. Textblock has tanning. Content has tanning but still in good readable condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Oxford World's Classics (Paperback).
Add this copy of The Last Man to cart. $18.94, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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Add this copy of The Last Man (World's Classics) to cart. $65.24, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1994 by Oxford University Press.
