The Last Man
(eBook)
From the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 roman à clef takes place in the late twenty-first century, as England's last king abdicates and a charmed circle of idealistic political reformers plunges into a maelstrom of war, pestilence, and anarchy. Shelley wrote this gripping novel after the untimely deaths of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their comrade, Lord Byron. She modeled a pair of characters on the charismatic poets and based the narrator-the sole survivor of a pandemic-on her own persona. This parable of humanity's destruction by plague is widely regarded as a repudiation of Romanticism and its failure to solve the world's problems through art and philosophy. It reflects the ways utopian ideals, unchecked by moral and ethical standards, can shatter society. Misunderstood by nineteenth-century readers, Shelley's visionary novel disappeared for over a century, only to reemerge to critical acclaim as a precursor of science fiction and a forerunner of modern apocalyptic tales. Novelist Muriel Spark hailed it as the harbinger of "an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel," and pronounced it Shelley's "most interesting, if not her consummate work."
Notes
Shelley, M. (2012). The Last Man. [United States], Dover Publications.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Shelley, Mary. 2012. The Last Man. [United States], Dover Publications.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Shelley, Mary, The Last Man. [United States], Dover Publications, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Shelley, Mary. The Last Man. [United States], Dover Publications, 2012.
Hoopla Extract Information
hooplaId | 11602765 |
---|---|
title | The Last Man |
kind | EBOOK |
price | 1.29 |
active | 1 |
pa | 0 |
profanity | 0 |
children | 0 |
demo | 0 |
rating | |
abridged | 0 |
dateLastUpdated |
Record Information
Last File Modification Time | Nov 22, 2023 11:36:41 PM |
---|---|
Last Grouped Work Modification Time | May 01, 2024 10:23:09 PM |
MARC Record
LEADER | 02674nam a22003735a 4500 | ||
---|---|---|---|
001 | MWT11602765 | ||
003 | MWT | ||
005 | 20231027103908.0 | ||
006 | m o d | ||
007 | cr cn||||||||| | ||
008 | 231027s2012 xxu eo 000 1 eng d | ||
020 | |a 9780486118390|q (electronic bk.) | ||
020 | |a 0486118398|q (electronic bk.) | ||
028 | 4 | 2 | |a MWT11602765 |
029 | |a https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9780486118390_180.jpeg | ||
037 | |a 11602765|b Midwest Tape, LLC|n http://www.midwesttapes.com | ||
040 | |a Midwest|e rda | ||
099 | |a eBook hoopla | ||
100 | 1 | |a Shelley, Mary,|e author. | |
245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Last Man|h [electronic resource] /|c Mary Shelley. |
264 | 1 | |a [United States] :|b Dover Publications,|c 2012. | |
264 | 2 | |b Made available through hoopla | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (352 pages) | ||
336 | |a text|b txt|2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer|b c|2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource|b cr|2 rdacarrier | ||
347 | |a text file|2 rda | ||
506 | |a Instant title available through hoopla. | ||
520 | |a From the author of Frankenstein comes this apocalyptic tale of a world devastated by plague. Mary Shelley's 1826 roman à clef takes place in the late twenty-first century, as England's last king abdicates and a charmed circle of idealistic political reformers plunges into a maelstrom of war, pestilence, and anarchy. Shelley wrote this gripping novel after the untimely deaths of her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their comrade, Lord Byron. She modeled a pair of characters on the charismatic poets and based the narrator-the sole survivor of a pandemic-on her own persona. This parable of humanity's destruction by plague is widely regarded as a repudiation of Romanticism and its failure to solve the world's problems through art and philosophy. It reflects the ways utopian ideals, unchecked by moral and ethical standards, can shatter society. Misunderstood by nineteenth-century readers, Shelley's visionary novel disappeared for over a century, only to reemerge to critical acclaim as a precursor of science fiction and a forerunner of modern apocalyptic tales. Novelist Muriel Spark hailed it as the harbinger of "an entirely new genre, compounded of the domestic romance, the Gothic extravaganza, and the sociological novel," and pronounced it Shelley's "most interesting, if not her consummate work." | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. | ||
650 | 0 | |a Electronic books. | |
710 | 2 | |a hoopla digital. | |
856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11602765?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4435|z Instantly available on hoopla. |
856 | 4 | 2 | |z Cover image|u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/csp_9780486118390_180.jpeg |