num_pages: 479
description: A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the doomed characters.
language: English
title: The Last Man
titlecomplete: The Last Man
characters: Lucy Martin, Lionel Verney, Merrival the Astronomer, Juliet (The Last Man), Clara of Raymond, Perdita Verney, Lady Raymond, Ryland (The Last Man), Idris Verney, The Imposter, Lord Raymond, Countess of Windsor, Evadne, Alfred Verney, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, Evelyn Verney
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Gothic, Apocalyptic, Horror, Literature, Classics, 19th Century, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 5445
places: Istanbul, Greece, Perth, Scotland, Scotland, England, Turkey, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland, Windsor, Berkshire, England
publisher: Oxford University Press