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The Last Man

By: Mary Shelley
Narrated by: Graham Dunlop
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Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man in 1826, in the aftermath of losing her husband Percy, their children, and Byron. What emerged was the first modern apocalypse: a plague rises out of the late 21st century and, year by year, empties the earth of human life. Armies dissolve. Cities go silent. England is abandoned. A small remnant flees south through France and Switzerland, dying as they go, until one man stands alone in Rome — the last witness of his species.
Almost two hundred years before COVID, before nuclear dread, before climate collapse, Shelley imagined what extinction would actually feel like from the inside. This abridgement strips away the period scaffolding — the political subplots, the long parliamentary set-pieces — and keeps Shelley's central nerve: the slow, dignified, devastating account of a world ending and one consciousness left to record it.
 Classics Dystopian Science Fiction
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