The Last Man
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Taken from an very ancient text establish abandoned in a cave, The Last Man ends in 2100, “the last year of the world.” A devastating worldwide plague has annihilated all of humanity except for one man, who chronicles the world’s demise. This novel of apocalyptic horror, originally published in 1826, was rejected in its time and was out of print from 1833 to 1965, when the first Bison Books edition appeared.
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If you are a fan of the book Frankenstein, then you will
definetely delight in this book. Mary Shelley is obviously
a gifted writer who is inciteful on human interplay.
The tale is not so acurate when it describes the 21st
century, but that is not what the tale concentrates on.
It is similar to Frankenstein about doomed characters
in a Greek tragedy. If your a fan of Mary then you must
buy this book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
If you are a fan of Mary Shelley, then you will definetely delight in this novel. Awesome ebook!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I am in ethereal like with Mary Shelley. Why is her literary importance and fancy not uplifted more than it is? I grimace whenever I go to a bookstore and glance each time at the Mary Shelley section to find only Frakenstein. She has additional fantastic books probably not many people know about. Such is the case in The Last Man. I thought Frankenstein was about as sad as one could allow a character to feel but after reading The Last Man Mary out does herself by really putting poor Verney in a pickle. This tale really tugged at me hard and really made me feel for the characters in a way so few books or movies ever have. If you know about Mary Shelley and have read Frankenstein or anything else by this, I feel, greatest leader to have ever place word to paper, then you MUST read this gorgeous accounting of “the last year of the world”. It astonished me to find out that the book was out of print from 1833 to 1965. Wow! I failed to compare the tale to such contemporary biological warfare or AIDS for that matter and took the tale’s meaning for what Shelley may have wanted to get across during her time that had neither. I judge she wants to nearly persuade us of a deeper level of human condition and compassion by taking us as low as we can and then allowing us to constantly strive upward from that dreadful place she leaves Verney. Please, read more of Mary Shelley.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I guess I can know how a rare few might like this book, but all these reviews are glowing. I loved Frankenstein. Shelley’s over-the-top romantic style meshed well with the weight of her theme matter and the driving force of her narrative. She told that tale efficiently. The Last Man is completely different. It’s way too long. The prelude to the beginning of the plague takes up more than half the book. Though it takes place hundreds of years yet to be of Shelley’s time there is no speculation (additional than the abdication of the British throne) about future societies, culture, or equipment. The plague itself is poorly described and there are no attempts to clarify why suddenly there is plague which is 99.99999999% fatal. Even in Shelley’s time, a century before germ theory was beginning to be understood, public health and sanitation were advanced enough so pandemics were not nearly as terrible as they had been just 400 to 500 hundred years previous, when the black death wiped out half of Europe.
On top of this Shelley’s writing is flowery, excessive and romanticised to the point of ridiculousness. She manages somehow to be melodramatic and excruciatingly dull at the same time.
Verney’s perfect isolation at end of the book lasted for about 15 pages. This was the closest thing in the book to appealing. The fascination in the post-apocalyptic is the thought of the experience of the lone survivor or tiny group remaining alive, concept open perfectly in books such as I am Legend, Planet Abides, On the Beach, and, of course, The Road.
Mary Shelley deserves credit for writing one of the first or perhaps even inventing the post-apocalyptic novel, which is not simply version of the Biblical Revelations. This book may have been terrifying in it’s day, but now it pales in comparison to the many additional volumes in it’s genre.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The Last Man starts with a man telling the tale of his life; how he was orphaned at an early age and had to go to work at the age of five(!) and grew up to become a juvenile delinquent with a probable career as a criminal. His life is utterly changed by an admirable young man who is simply kind to him. What you may be asking does this have to do with the title? Mary Shelley is being sneaky here. She pulls you completely into the narrator’s life. You and he barely notice when a name mentions a plague in China. Here the comparison to the AIDS epidemic is all to apt. A plague is advancing. The end of the world is at hand and no one pays attention because it doesn’t directly, personally affect their lives. Suddenly, the plague is everywhere and then, too late, the human race scrambles to find a way to survive. It’s a very profound, very sad book, well-worth the effort.
Written in 1826, this is, as far as I know, the first novel to take up the theme of a deadly plague that threatens the survival of the human race. Potential readers need to be warned that the writing style takes an effort to get used to. There is nothing incorrect with it. It’s simply different from a different age, the age of the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen. It is well worth the effort.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5