Publisher's Synopsis
"The last man (1826) tells the story of events around the year 2092, when a plague accompanies catastrophic changes in Earth's climate and ends humanity. Mary Shelley is dramatically wrong about a lot of things, but her novel is strangely prescient at the same time, imagining problems entirely contemporary for us and also situating and explaining them in the long context of the modern period. This volume includes a new introduction by Stefan Mattessich that explores the resonances of Shelley's novel in contemporary times"--.
