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The Last Man
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Mary Shelley’s prophetic novel of plague, friendship, political collapse, memory, and the end of humanity.
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The Last Man
The Last Man imagines a future world emptied by plague, following Lionel Verney through ambition, friendship, love, loss, and the collapse of political hope. Mary Shelley transforms personal grief and Romantic biography into a vast apocalyptic fiction about contagion, leadership, solitude, memory, and survival after civilization fails.
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Mary Shelley died in 1851, and The Last Man was first published in 1826. These dates support the public-domain basis for this original-language edition.
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The Last Man
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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LONDON: HENRY COLBURN. 1826.
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- 01Full text
- 02LONDON: HENRY COLBURN. 1826.
- 03VOL. I.
- 04INTRODUCTION.
- 05Di mie tenere frondi altro lavoro Credea mostrarte; e qual fero pianeta Ne’ nvidiò insieme, o mio nobil tesoro?
- 06CHAPTER I.
- 07CHAPTER II.
- 08CHAPTER III.
- 09CHAPTER IV.
- 10I gasped for breath—
- 11CHAPTER IV.
- 12CHAPTER V.
- 13CHAPTER VI.
- 14CHAPTER VII.
- 15CHAPTER VIII.
- 16CHAPTER IX.
- 17“PERDITA.”
- 18CHAPTER X.
- 19VOL. II.
- 20CHAPTER I.
- 21CHAPTER II.
- 22CHAPTER III.
- 23CHAPTER IV.
- 24CHAPTER V.
- 25CHAPTER VI.
- 26CHAPTER VII.
- 27CHAPTER VIII.
- 28CHAPTER IX.
- 29VOL. III.
- 30CHAPTER I.
- 31CHAPTER II.
- 32CHAPTER III.
- 33“HONOURED LADY,
- 34CHAPTER IV.
- 35CHAPTER V.
- 36CHAPTER VI.
- 37CHAPTER VII.
- 38I clasped her shrivelled hand: “Are you indeed so ill?” I asked.
- 39CHAPTER VIII.
- 40CHAPTER IX.
- 41CHAPTER X.
- 42THE END.
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