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THE LAST MAN - MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY KART...

`The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings  feeling myself as the last
relic of a beloved race  my companions extinct before me.' Mary Shelley  Journal (May
1824).Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein  Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight
years later  on returning to England from Italy after her husband's death.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 the story  a tale of complicated  tragic love  and of the gradual extermination of the
human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing roman à clef  for the
saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe Shelley  and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait
of Byron. The novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism
as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem her doomed
characters.

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