The last man
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Author), Anne McWhir (Editor, Writer of introduction)
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, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description
Fictional Work
xliii, 425 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9781551110769, 1551110768
35931300
Introduction
Note on the text
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: a brief chronology
The last man
Map of Lionel Verney's world
Appendix A. Some contemporaries of the Last Man
Appendix B. The sibyl's cave
Appendix C. Versions of plague
Appendix D. "The web of the mind"
Appendix E. Mary Shelley's poems
Appendix F. Contemporary comments on and reviews of The Last Man
Appendix G. Postscript
Works cited/Recommended reading