Fiction
The Last Man
by Mary Shelley
Key Statistics
ID: the-last-manPublished
1826
Pages
432
Est. Weight
1.8 lbs
About this Edition
Mary Shelley, the author of [*Frankenstein*][1], wrote the apocalyptic novel The Last Man in 1826. Its first person narrative tells the story of our world standing at the end of the twenty-first century and - after the devastating effects of a plague - at the end of humanity. In the book Shelley writes of weaving this story from a discovery of prophetic writings uncovered in a cave near Naples. Th...
Subjects: Fiction, Plague, Twenty-first century, End of the world, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) Last Updated: 1/10/2026