The Last Man is a novel of isolation: an isolation that reflected Shelley’s painful circumstances. Frankenstein speaks to us now in our fears of scientific overreach, our difficulties in recognising our shared humanity.īut her neglected later book The Last Man (1826) has the most to say to us in our present moment of crisis and global pandemic. Its extraordinary career in adaptation began almost from the point of publication, and it has had a long afterlife as a keyword in our culture. Mary Shelley is famous for one novel – her first, Frankenstein (1819).
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