'The last man! I may well describe that solitary being's feelings,
feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions
extinct before me.' Mary Shelley, Journal (May 1824). Best
remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The
Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy
after her husband's death. 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 the story, a tale of
complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the
human race by plague. The Last Man also functions as an intriguing
roman a clef, for the saintly Adrian is a monument to Percy Bysshe
Shelley, and his friend Lord Raymond is a portrait of Byron. The
novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction
against Romanticism, as Shelley demonstrates the failure of the
imagination and of art to redeem her doomed characters. ABOUT THE
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