Last Man

Name: Last Man
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ISBN: 9780819566089

ISBN-10: 081956608X

ISBN-13: 9780819566089

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jean-Baptiste Franï¿½ois Xavier Cousin de Grainville, I. F. Clarke, M. Clarke, Cousin de Grainville, Cousin de Grainville

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Originally published in French in 1805, The Last Man is a powerful story of the demise of the human race. Drawing on the traditional account in Revelations, The Last Man was the first end-of-the-world story in future fiction. As the first secular apocalypse story, The Last Man served as the departure point for many other speculative fictions of this type throughout the 19th century, including works by Shelley, Flammarion and Wells. Grainville's masterful imagination is evident in the vast scale of the action as Omegarus, the Last Adam, and Syderia, the Last Eve, are led toward the moment when "the light of the sun and the stars is extinguished." This is essential reading for anyone…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 220
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.45" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface


Introduction





Canto I


Canto II


Canto III


Canto IV


Canto V





Canto VI


Canto VII


Canto VIII


Canto IX


Canto X



Preface to the Second Edition of Le Dernier Homme (1811)


Notes


Bibliography