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The Last Man de Mary Shelley

The Last Man: Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy

Autor Mary Shelley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2019
A brilliant, early dystopian tale of classic science fiction. The Last Man is a powerful, post-apocalyptic tale and precursor to the much later science fiction novels of H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick and Harlan Ellison amongst others. Overshadowed by the titanic success of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s neglected masterpiece tells of a future laid waste by plague. Lionel Varney, an indolent nobleman, is immune to the savage effects of the disease having been bitten by an early victim. Varney is forced to watch the long decline of civilisation as humanity sinks slowly into extinction.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781787556225
ISBN-10: 1787556220
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Flame Tree Publishing
Colecția Flame Tree 451
Seria Essential Gothic, SF & Dark Fantasy

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) was born in London, to her father the writer William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, an influential social campaigner who died 11 days after the birth of her daughter. Mary's early life was unconventional and by the age of 16 she eloped with the then-married Percy Bysshe Shelley. Amongst their friends were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Lord Byron, the latter of whom offered the challenge to Mary to write a ghost story which later became Frankenstein.

Descriere

A brilliant, early dystopian tale, 'The Last Man' is a powerful, post-apocalyptic tale and precursor to the later science fiction of H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Philip K. Dick and Harlan Ellison amongst others. Overshadowed by the titanic success of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s neglected masterpiece tells of a future laid waste by plague.

Recenzii

Mary Shelley’s third published novel, The Last Man, is a disillusioned vision of the end of civilization, set in the twenty-first century. The book offers a sweeping account of war, plague, love, and desolation. It is the sort of apocalyptic vision that was widespread at the time, though Shelley’s treatment of the theme goes beyond the conventional; it is extraordinarily interesting and deeply moving.
If The Last Man is in some sense a “conventional” text of the period, it is also intensely personal in its origin; Shelley refers in her journal to the last man as her alter ego, “the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.” The novel thus develops out of and contributes to a network of story and idea in which fantasy, allusion, convention, and autobiography are densely interwoven.
This new version of the first edition (1826) sets out to provide not only a thoroughly annotated text, but also contextual materials to help the reader acquire knowledge of the intellectual and literary milieu out of which the novel emerged. Appendices include material on “the last man” as early nineteenth-century hero, texts from the debate initiated by Malthus in 1798 about the adequacy of food supply to sustain human population, various accounts of outbreaks of plague, and Shelley’s poems representing her feelings after the death of her husband.

“Anne McWhir’s edition of The Last Man is first rate! Mary Shelley’s novel is well served by a careful editor who provides an informed introduction, comprehensive annotations, and well-chosen appendices that contextualize this richly complex novel—Shelley herself would have been pleased!” — Charles E. Robinson, University of Delaware

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Last Man
  • Introduction
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 3
Map of Lionel Verney’s World
Appendix A: Some Contemporaries of the Last Man
  1. George Gordon, Lord Byron, “Darkness” (1816)
  2. Thomas Campbell, “The Last Man” (1823)
  3. Thomas Campbell, letter in The Times, 24 March 1825
  4. Thomas Hood, from “The Last Man” (1826)
  5. George Dibdin Pitt, from The Last Man; or; The Miser of Eltham Green (1833)
  6. Thomas Love Beddoes, notes for a projected play, The Last Man
Appendix B: The Sibyl’s Cave
  1. Virgil, from Aeneid 6
  2. Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville, from The Last Man; or Omegarus and Syderia, A Romance in Futurity (1806)
Appendix C: Versions of Plague
  1. Edward Gibbon, from The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88)
  2. Daniel Defoe, from A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)
  3. Charles Brockden Brown, from Arthur Mervyn (1799-1800)
  4. John Wilson, from The City of the Plague (1816)
  5. From “Contagion and Sanitary Laws,” Westminster Review 3 (1825): 134-67
Appendix D: “The Web of Mind”
  1. Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney, from The Ruins (1791)
  2. William Godwin, from Political Justice (1793)
  3. Thomas Robert Malthus, from An Essay on Population (1798)
  4. Mary Wollstonecraft, from The French Revolution (1794)
  5. Edmund Burke, from A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)
  6. Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Notes to Queen Mab (1813)
  7. Percy Bysshe Shelley, from Preface to The Revolt of Islam (1818)
  8. William Godwin, from Essay on Sepulchres (1809)
Appendix E: Mary Shelley’s poems (1825)
  1. “The Choice”
  2. “On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peel Castle”
  3. “To Jane— (with the ’Last Man’)”
Appendix F: Contemporary Comments on and Reviews of The Last Man
  1. From The Literary Magnet of Monthly Journal of the Belles Lettres, ns 1 (January 1826): 56
  2. From The Literary Gazette, and Journal of the Belles Letters, 474 ( Saturday 18 Feb. 1826): 56
  3. From Monthly Review 1 (1826): 333-35
  4. From Blackwood’s 21 (January 1827): 54
Appendix G: Postscript
  • From Mary Shelley, Rambles in Germany and Italy (1844)
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