The Last Man

Mary Shelley founded modern science fiction with her 1816 classic Frankenstein. A decade later, she inaugurated the subgenre of post-apocalyptic sf with the less-lauded and less-known The Last Man. Shelley used the found-manuscript trope for this book, claiming to have discovered a series of seemingly connected stories on various pages in the Cumaean Sibyl's Cave, and stitched them together into this originally three-volume work. The story told here, of a far-future (late 21st century), is relat

About the author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the daughter of philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin and the wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was eighteen years old when she began Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and with its publication in 1818 created science fiction as a genre. She went on to write six more novels, many short stories, and numerous articles, but Frankenstein, her masterstroke, remains her best-known work.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Shelley
• Publisher: Gray Rabbit Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2018
• EAN: 9781515419976
• ISBN: 978-1-5154-1997-6
• No. of pages: 362
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 738 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature