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English | 1996 | ISBN: 1551110768 | 425 Pages | PDF | 47.3 MB
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.
玛丽·雪莱(Mary Shelley,1797年8月30日—1851年2月1日),英国著名小说家,其丈夫是英国著名浪漫主义诗人珀西·比希·雪莱,因其1818年创作了文学史上第一部科幻小说《弗兰肯斯坦》(或译《科学怪人》),而被誉为科幻小说之母。
玛丽·雪莱留下了一笔丰厚的文化遗产:16本书和专著,多篇短篇小说、散文、论文、游记、诗歌、信件等。其中最具影响力的两本书是《弗兰肯斯坦》( Franken-stein) (1818)和《最后一个人》(The Last Man)(1826)。
《永生者》。(作者没有标注写作具体年代)
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