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The Last Man

Mary Shelley

Set in late 21st-century Europe, the story follows humanity's struggle as a devastating plague sweeps across the globe, threatening extinction.

"The Last Man" by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is an apocalyptic science fiction novel. Set in late 21st-century Europe, the story follows humanity's struggle as a devastating plague sweeps across the globe, threatening extinction.

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I am the native of a sea-surrounded nook, a cloud-enshadowed land, which, when the surface of the globe, with its shoreless ocean and trackless continents, presents itself to my mind, appears only as an inconsiderable speck in the immense whole; and yet, when balanced in the scale of mental power, far outweighed countries of larger extent and more numerous population. So true it is, that man’s mind alone was the creator of all that was good or great to man, and that Nature herself was only his first minister. England, seated far north in the turbid sea, now visits my dreams in the semblance of a vast and well-manned ship, which mastered the winds and rode proudly over the waves. In my boyish days she was the universe to me. When I stood on my native hills, and saw plain and mountain stretch out to the utmost limits of my vision, speckled by the dwellings of my countrymen, and subdued to fertility by their labours, the earth’s very centre was fixed for me in that spot, and the rest of her orb was as a fable, to have forgotten which would have cost neither my imagination nor understanding an effort.

Contents

  1. 01Vol. I.
  2. 02Introduction.
  3. 03Chapter I.
  4. 04Chapter II.
  5. 05Chapter III.
  6. 06Chapter IV.
  7. 07Chapter IV.
  8. 08Chapter V.
  9. 09Chapter VI.
  10. 10Chapter VII.
  11. 11Chapter VIII.
  12. 12Chapter IX.
  13. 13Chapter X.
  14. 14Vol. II.
  15. 15Chapter I.
  16. 16Chapter II.
  17. 17Chapter III.
  18. 18Chapter IV.
  19. 19Chapter V.
  20. 20Chapter VI.
  21. 21Chapter VII.
  22. 22Chapter VIII.
  23. 23Chapter IX.
  24. 24Vol. III.
  25. 25Chapter I.
  26. 26Chapter II.
  27. 27Chapter III.
  28. 28Chapter IV.
  29. 29Chapter V.
  30. 30Chapter VI.
  31. 31Chapter VII.
  32. 32Chapter VIII.
  33. 33Chapter IX.
  34. 34Chapter X.

About this edition

Author
Mary Shelley
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Advanced: for close, demanding reading
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
448 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers