Research Catalog

Title

• The last man / Mary Shelley ; edited with an introduction and notes by Morton D. Paley.

Author

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2008]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Paley, Morton D.

Description

xxviii, 479 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description.

Series Statement

• Oxford world's classics

Uniform Title

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Subject

• End of the world > Fiction
• Plague > Fiction
• Twenty-first century > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Apocalyptic fantasies.
• Fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note on the text -- Select bibliography -- A chronology of Mary Shelley -- The Last Man -- Volume 1 -- Volume 2 -- Volume 3 -- Explanatory notes.

ISBN

• 9780199552351 (pbk.)
• 0199552355 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009290351

OCLC

231589419

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library