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9781840224030
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of 'Last Man', published 2004 under ISBN 9781840224030 and ISBN 1840224037.
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