The Last ManThe Floating Press, 01.05.2009 - 772 Seiten Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, 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. |
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... London, were taken forth and conveyed into the mansion. It was part of the Ex-Queen's plan, to surround her son with princely magnificence. I beheld rich carpets and silken hangings, ornaments of gold, richly embossed metals, emblazoned ...
... London, were taken forth and conveyed into the mansion. It was part of the Ex-Queen's plan, to surround her son with princely magnificence. I beheld rich carpets and silken hangings, ornaments of gold, richly embossed metals, emblazoned ...
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... London, on the fatal night of his defeat at the gamingtable, the king had received no tidings concerning him, and when, after the lapse of years, he exerted himself to discover him, every trace was lost. With fonder regret than ever, he ...
... London, on the fatal night of his defeat at the gamingtable, the king had received no tidings concerning him, and when, after the lapse of years, he exerted himself to discover him, every trace was lost. With fonder regret than ever, he ...
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... London, and came back full of plans for our benefit. You must begin life, he said: you are seventeen, and longer delay would render the necessary apprenticeship more and more irksome. He foresaw that his own life would be one of ...
... London, and came back full of plans for our benefit. You must begin life, he said: you are seventeen, and longer delay would render the necessary apprenticeship more and more irksome. He foresaw that his own life would be one of ...
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... London for Paris, he followed, and overtook her when the vessel was about to sail, none knew what passed between them, but Perdita had never seen him since, he lived in seclusion, no one knew where, attended by such persons as his ...
... London for Paris, he followed, and overtook her when the vessel was about to sail, none knew what passed between them, but Perdita had never seen him since, he lived in seclusion, no one knew where, attended by such persons as his ...
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... London to visit my sister. Her society was my chief solace and delight; and my spirits always rose at the expectation of seeing her. Her conversation was full of pointed remark and discernment; in her pleasant alcove, redolent with ...
... London to visit my sister. Her society was my chief solace and delight; and my spirits always rose at the expectation of seeing her. Her conversation was full of pointed remark and discernment; in her pleasant alcove, redolent with ...
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Chapter VII | 173 |
Chapter VI | 392 |
Chapter VII | 421 |
Chapter VIII | 437 |
Chapter IX | 482 |
VOLUME III | 514 |
Chapter I | 515 |
Chapter II | 531 |
Chapter III | 560 |
Chapter VIII | 194 |
Chapter IX | 225 |
Chapter X | 255 |
VOLUME II | 273 |
Chapter I | 274 |
Chapter II | 300 |
Chapter III | 331 |
Chapter IV | 358 |
Chapter V | 376 |
Chapter IV | 593 |
Chapter V | 627 |
Chapter VI | 645 |
Chapter VII | 668 |
Chapter VIII | 692 |
Chapter IX | 714 |
Chapter X | 737 |
Endnotes | 770 |
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