The Last Man
About this book
Mary Shelley, the author of [*Frankenstein*][1], 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 into a 2008 film.
[1]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL450125W/Frankenstein
Subjects
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- end of the world
- end of the world -- fiction
- english literature
- epidemics -- fiction
- fiction
- fiction, fantasy, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, science fiction, general
- long now manual for civilization
- plague
- plague -- fiction
- science fiction
- twenty-first century
- twenty-first century -- fiction