The Last Man Contributor(s): Shelley, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1515419975 ISBN-13: 9781515419976 Publisher: Gray Rabbit Publishing OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
Lexile Measure: 1210 |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6" W x 9" (1.54 lbs) 362 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 |