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Author Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, author.

Title The last man / Mary Shelley ; edited with an introduction and notes by Morton D. Paley
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 479 pages)
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Summary It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates, a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxv-xxvi)
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed December 14, 2023)
Subject Twenty-first century -- Fiction
End of the world -- Fiction
Plague -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
End of the world
Plague
Twenty-first century
Genre/Form Fiction
Robinsonades.
Apocalyptic fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Paley, Morton D., editor, writer of introduction, writer of added commentary.
ISBN 9780191610721
0191610720
1283222884
9781283222884
9786613222886
6613222887