Frightening & intense themes
StrongA man convulses and dies during the plague. Another passage depicts a bereaved woman alone beside her mother's covered body amid widespread death and isolation.
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Last Man
The Last Man is an apocalyptic, dystopian science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, first published in 1826. The narrative concerns Europe in the late 21st century, ravaged by the rise of a bubonic plague pandemic that rapidly sweeps across the entire globe, ultimately resulting in the near-extinction of humanity.
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Project Gutenberg English text eBook 18247, The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, title page London: Henry Colburn, 1826. Other editions, audio performances and adaptations excluded.
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