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SHELLEY, Mary.. The Last Man, the author of Frankenstein. 3 vol.,. , 1826.

Price: US$8352.90 + shipping

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Description: The Last Man, the author of Frankenstein. 3 vol., Paris, A. and W. Galignani, 1826. 8vo (170 x 105 mm). Contemporary half calf with marble boards. Nice copies. Front board of volume one tender, oval 19th century stamp on the flyleaf of every volume: P.E. athelineau. No advertisement leaf at the end of volume one. are at auction. The first edition printed in Paris. Henry Colburn also published two editions in London in the same year. The Last Man is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. In the 21th century England is a republic governed by a ruling elite. When a plague ravages the world, they don't see “no immediate necessity for an earnest caution” but relentlessly attacked by an unstoppable plague, the human population collapses within a few years, until only one man survives. The year is 2100 and the world begins to return to a state of conspicuous natural beauty, a global garden of Eden. The Last Man is a novel of isolation: an isolation that reflected Shelley’s painful circumstances. The novel’s characters closely resemble the famous members of the Shelley-Byron circle, including Shelley’s husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, his friend Lord Byron, and Mary’s stepsister (Byron’s sometime lover), Claire Clairmont. By the time Shelley came to write the novel, all of them were dead. Once part of the most significant social circle of second-generation Romantic poet-intellectuals, Shelley now found herself almost alone in the world.

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