The Last Man

The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy set in the late twenty-first century. It talks about the end of human civilization by a plague. The book was first published in 1826. It was harshly criticized at the time, and was virtually forgotten until a scholarly revival in the 1960s. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, editor, dramatist, essayist, biographer and travel writer. Her most famous work is Frankenstein (1818).