The last man / / Mary Shelley

• Autore: Shelley Mary
• 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