The Last Man

English language

Published Dec. 19, 2015 by Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy.

ISBN:
978-1-5040-0591-3
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OCLC Number:
968125369

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Mary Shelley's astounding look at the end of the world Set at the end of the twenty-first century, The Last Man is a moving and fantastical account of the apocalypse. Faced with a populace clamoring for more democratic rule, the last king of England relinquishes his throne. Suddenly a mysterious plague sweeps the globe, drawing ever nearer to England. As war, disease, and death ravage humanity, ideals of fairness and love are quickly supplanted by the imperative of survival. With semibiographical characters drawn from Shelley's own inner circle of friends and colleagues, this book is at once a look at the end of mankind and a critique of Romanticism. The Last Man's themes of destruction resonate as much now as they did nearly two hundred years ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

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Esta novela nos demuestra, una vez más, que el cambio en el mundo durante los últimos 200 años no fue ni moral ni social, a pesar de que en nuestra vanidad y autocomplacencia insistimos en esa idea.

Las nociones del bien y el mal, de lo moral y lo inmoral, de lo bello y lo horrible, de lo justo y lo despreciable, son para Mary Shelley las mismas que para cualquiera de nosotros.

Y sin embargo, a la vez impresiona cómo imaginaba Mary en 1826 el mundo de 2076, más de 2050 años después, sin grandes cambios políticos ni tecnológicos, más allá de un tímido fin de la monarquía en poco diferente del interregno de Cromwell casi dos siglos antes.

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