The Last Man
The Last Man
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Desc: The Last Man ends in 2100 "the last year of the world." A devastating plague has wiped out humanity except for one man. This novel of horror originally published in 1826 was rejected in its time and out of print from 1833 to 1963 when the first Bison Books edition appeared. Some critics now rate The Last Man more highly than Frankenstein by the same author. This Bison Books edition offers a new introduction by Anne K. Mellor who writes "In our era of AIDS and biological warfare Shelley's apocalyptic vision of an incurable plague that gradually destroys the entire human species resonates with mythic power."