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Autore: |
Shelley Mary
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Titolo: |
The last man / / Mary Shelley
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Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , [2013] |
©2013 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (1344 p.) |
Soggetto topico: | Twenty-first century |
End of the world | |
Plague | |
Apocalyptic literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic sci-fi novel published in 1826. It portrays a future ravaged by plague and famine in which technology, religion and hope are wiped away. Shelley is the first to conceive of a future apocalypse as a literary device, and would influence many writers to come. The Last Man is set in England between 2070 and 2100. Though it doesn't look a whole lot different from the 1820s (sans cars, telephones, internets), we can can imagine it is an alternate future. In it, Lionel Verney describes how he was taken in by a noblemen and he and his younger sister would co |
Titolo autorizzato: | Last man ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-304-74957-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910155519303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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